Best Religion In Society Quotes

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what’s the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.