PandemicSoul Quotelog » Religious

Sir Julian Huxley

Jordan — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:43:37 +0000

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Bertrand Russel

Jordan — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:59:49 +0000

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

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Frederick Douglass

Jordan — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:59:18 +0000

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

On escaping from slavery.
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Thomas Jefferson

Jordan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:59:25 +0000

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

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James Buchanan

Jordan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:59:02 +0000

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

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Mark Twain

Jordan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:59:17 +0000

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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Muhammad

Jordan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:59:11 +0000

The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.

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Napoleon

Jordan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:59:08 +0000

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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Gene Roddenberry

Jordan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:59:59 +0000

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

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Albert Einstein

Jordan — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:59:05 +0000

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.