Arrogant Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I…

— Thomas Paine

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads…

— Lisa Randall

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

— Gary Panter

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have…

— Burt Prelutsky

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for…

— Alain de Botton

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief…

— Vera Farmiga

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

— Alain de Botton

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate…

— Peter Jennings

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a…

— Brian Eno

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

— Karl Barth