Religion Quotes by Gore Vidal

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

— Gore Vidal

Christianity is such a silly religion.

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I'm a born - again atheist.

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Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

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Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a…

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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam…

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I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very…

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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise,…

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Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ…

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Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to…

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When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by…

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Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in…

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The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches…

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In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with…

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This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got…

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“Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do…

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“There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and…

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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam…

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Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade…

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Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists.…

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The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion…

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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed…

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