Belief Quote by John Howard

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

— Hugo Black

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

— August Strindberg

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

— Zakir Naik

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as…

— James G. Frazer

The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible…

— Helen Prejean

“What you mean is, with God in the story there's a penalty," said Toby. "Yes," said Adam One. "There's a penalty without God in…

— Margaret Atwood

That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable,…

— Richard Carrier

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

— Anonymous

“No one commits mass murder in the name of theism or atheism alone. Additional dogmatic principles are needed to justify such grisly outcomes. In…

— Armin Navabi

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned…

— Harry A. Blackmun

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to…

— David Bentley Hart

Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite…

— Sam Harris