Gray Watson's Quote List

Religion

Newer ones that I've collected up top.

• Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. -- Sir Peter Ustinov
• ... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations. -- James Randi
• If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle. -- Dave Berry
• Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years, with time off for good behavior? -- New York Senator James H. Donovan, commenting on capital punishment
• So, these three guys walk into a bar: a Catholic priest, a pedophile, and a porn addict, and he's with two other men. -- unknown
• I agree with the folks who believe that Bible-tales should get the same amount of airtime as empirically-based, falsifiable theories. Who's to say that one explanation should be presented to the exclusion of the other? Shouldn't we let the students come to their own conclusions? This is why I think that schools should teach a third creation theory: me-ism. The theory states that I personally created all life on earth about an hour ago. As tests of faith, I also planted the fossil record, created the cosmic background radiation, and red-shifted the emission spectra of stellar objects in proportion to their distance from the earth. -- From Lucas Kovar's gripes on creationism.
• ... [Is] man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? -- Nietzsche
• (On going to war over religion:) "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." -- Rich Jeni
• I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there. -- R. J. Hollingdale
• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine
• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain-then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? -- Robert A. Heinlein
• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. -- Robert A. Heinlein
• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei
• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window. -- Stephen King
• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson
• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin
• A [person's] ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. [We] would indeed be in a poor way if [we] had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death -- Albert Einstein
• [To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. -- John D. MacDonald, A Deadly Shade of Gold
• Televangelists: The Pro Wrestlers of religion -- unknown
• A [person] without religion is like a fish without pajamas. -- J. Powers .sig

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