#religion

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #religion

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#importance #important #minds #religion #the-truth

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#religion #religion

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dislikes #racism #religion #scepticism #stupidity

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fundamentalism #religion #religion

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheist #evidence #god #noremorse #science

Religion is the opiate of the masses. ↗

— Karl Marx

#philosophical #religion #religion

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#religion #science #religion

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#knowledge #organized-religion #sin #truth #religion

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#metaphysics #philosophy #religion #tao #taoism