The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit...

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I...

A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is...

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men

Gospel of miracles is bringing about corruption in our country.

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief... .And supposedly 95% of Americans say they believe in God - that's worrying... .Religions are Trojan horses which conceal profoundly strange psychopathy...

Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence - - and punishes those who do.

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human...

No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.

Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of...

There is no worship for God without the honor of fellow man

Priests cheapjack merchants selling paradise

What if we changed the story that has been peddled to us over thousands of years by those religions that want to control us, that this life is merely a stepping stone to something better or something...

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

When we live holy we will glorify self but when we glorify God we will live holy

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy - fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.

That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super - powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have...

The moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

To assure someone that if enough nuns sing enough Masses then her dead child will go to heaven is trickery as low as passing a false coin as good. To buy a pardon from the pope, to force the pope to...

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love,...

She made a creche outside the Inn. The natives thought it was wonderful, and Sister Honey was gratified by their numbers. 'Why have the devils with wings come to mock at the poor baby?' asked the...