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.
A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
No one in my family disbelieved in religion, and no one disbelieved in evolution, either.
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
Really? It made a crazy sense. Maybe perfect sense to somebody in the religion business.