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Religion Quotes by George Carlin
- I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own,…
- Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
- I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
- Religion is just mind control.
- Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
- When in comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.
- Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do,…
- Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.
- Religion - religion, at best - at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it…
- Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.
- Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.
- What year did Jesus think it was?
- I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If…
- Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And…
- I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun.…
- No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,…
- How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?
- Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
- The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.
- It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments…
- Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.
- Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.
More Religion Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi