Catchwords about religion

- Religion is the end of love and honesty, the beginning of confusion; faith is a colorful hope of fear, the origin of folly.                                                                                                                                               - Tao Te Ching

- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.  - Galileo Galilei

- I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.  - Richard Dawkins

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."  - Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."  - Albert Einstein

- Religion poisons everything. As well as a menace to civilization, it has become a threat to human survival. - Christopher Hitchens

- If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -Voltaire

~ Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ~Bertrand Russell

- There is no path to reality. Reality is a pathless land, and you must venture out and discover it for yourself. It is because you are frightened inwardly that you depend on something, on the priest or on a belief, and so you get caught in the net of an organized religion. Wherever organized religions may lead you, they will certainly not lead you to truth. You must go beyond organized religions to find truth. - Krishnamurti

~ The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ~Georgia Harkness

~ In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ~Mark Twain

~ Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth.                                                                                                                                                                                          ~Henry Louis Mencken

~ The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ~Dave Berry

~ All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ~Stendhal

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."          - Robert Pirsig

~ Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca

~ Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. ~Steven Weinberg

- Co-operation is only possible when there is no 'authority'. You know, that is one of the most dangerous things in the world 'authority'. One assumes 'authority' in the name of an ideology, or in the name of God, or Truth, and an individual, or group of people, who have assumed that 'authority', cannot possibly bring about a world order. - Krishnamurti

- Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby.