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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Sep 24, 2025
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".
Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros
Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.
I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out.
I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
All gods are better than their reputation.
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.