The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Edward Gibbon

Mots clés corruption magistrate organized-religion roman-empire rome useful worship



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I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

George Carlin

Mots clés religion organized-religion



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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

Mots clés religion organized-religion institutions richard-dawkins



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If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Woody Allen

Mots clés humor religion christian-behavior organized-religion woody-allen



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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

Harvey Milk

Mots clés history religion organized-religion



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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 holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

George Carlin

Mots clés religion organized-religion taxation



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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

Richard Dawkins

Mots clés christianity god religion bible organized-religion yahweh



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Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Jon Stewart

Mots clés paradox religion absurd organized-religion



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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Edmond de Goncourt

Mots clés religion atheism organized-religion



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Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

Joseph Campbell

Mots clés religion myth metaphor organized-religion atheists believers theists



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