Religion And War Quotes

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

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.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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

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

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.