#religion

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#associate #beautiful #beautiful thing #because #believe

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. ↗

— Julia Child

#be true #because #benevolent #female #generation

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ↗

— John Updike

#get #ignore #jobs #life #nothingness

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#anna #anna-sewell #black-beauty #kindness #love

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music. ↗

— Sam Harris

#reason #religion #beauty

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' ↗

— Tom Cruise

#avoiding #becomes #different #discussing #humanitarian

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#death

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ↗

— Dave Davies

#between #big #big problem #i #i think

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#am #because #i #i am #religion

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't. ↗

— Jack Dee

#discard #effect #however #i #liked