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Religion Quotes by Michael Shermer
- Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body…
- Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
- The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
- Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism…
- Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to…
- Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
- There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense…
- Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
- 'Are science and religion compatible?' It's like [asking]: 'Are science and plumbing compatible?' They're just two different things.
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