The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
Religion Quotes
Religion is a page where believers and unbelievers share space. Shakespeare and Milton lead, but Robert Ingersoll and the biologist Jerry Coyne are close behind, and the sourced favourites lean sceptical: Bertrand Russell in Sceptical Essays (1928) on moralists and Hell, Bierce in 1911 calling religion a daughter of Hope and Fear.
Three entries are flagged. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep” is credited to the missionary Jim Elliot, and the notes call it a paraphrase of the English clergyman Philip Henry (1631–1696). Newton’s remark that he could calculate the motions of heavenly bodies but not the madness of the people is disputed, and it is usually tied to the South Sea stock bubble. A line about Earth and Heaven credited to David Hare is flagged misattributed.
If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?
After all, what new insights has religion produced in the last century?
You can find some religions without creationism, but you can’t find creationism without religion.
“Blasphemy” and “heresy” are terms of religion, not science.
Religion has no warrant and no method for decreeing what is and what is not beyond science.
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.
The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.
If humans were inclined to goodness, religion would not be necessary.
He has no belief—faith is beneath his dignity—but he enjoys the designed madness of religion.