Quotes on Religion In Society

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

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.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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.

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

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

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

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

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.