Quotes on Religious Belief

Masonry is not a religion._x000D_ He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.