religion

"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."

"I had failed to make a gift of myself to God."

"Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight."

"You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned"

"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."

"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."

"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood."

"People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed."

"I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus."

"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."

"The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it."

"You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense."

"AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world."

"As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child."No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid."

"God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color."

"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn."

"Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all."

"There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades."

"Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live."

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."