religion Quotes

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

All religions have been made by men.

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.