Top 1200 Criticism Of Religion Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.

There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I'll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have, for religion -we protect religion- and talk about a lifestyle choice! That is absolutely a choice. Gay people don't choose to be gay. At what age did you choose not to be gay?

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't.

I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.

The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.

I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert me, I have, you know, nothing - and to interfere with the rights of people to believe other religions or to not believe in any religion at all - as long as they mind their own religion - perfectly all right with me...

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, #? humility .

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.