Agnostic Quote by Hu Shih

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing…

— Artur Phleps

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential…

— Edwin Gaustad

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and…

— Emile Durkheim

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

— B. B. King

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a writer on…

— John E. Remsburg

It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given…

— David Hume

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of…

— David Hume

“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most…

— Douglas Preston