ON FAITH AND RELIGION

ON FAITH AND RELIGION

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with
bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell


Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
- Doris Egan


If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker


You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
- Doris Egan


I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
- Georges Duhamel


I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
- Jules Renard


God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery


Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
- Woody Allen


If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- Voltaire


If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton


I'm a born-again atheist.
- Gore Vidal


Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of
them.
- H. L. Mencken


A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe


When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal


We’re not playing.
- Craig Venter [On accusations that he was playing God when trying to create the first artificial bacterium. - KKL]


The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad


It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- Andrew W. Mathis


When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln