Salman Rushdie Quotes

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to be an atheist.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

First I stopped believing in hell, then the afterlife. Sometimes that connection is still there, and I'll feel an impulse to pray if I'm stressed or upset.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

I believe in the separation of church and state... We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all... They are all citizens of Minnesota and I have to respect that.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think.

I don't believe in God anymore.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

I no longer believe that the Bible is the literal and infallible word of God. And I don't believe in God as a figure in the sky listening to your prayers, things like that.

As a teenager, I had been growing away from the beliefs of the church, but one of the main things that caused me to question Christian Science was that the year that I left home to go to college, a boy who I knew in my Sunday School, whose name was Michael Schram, who was 12 years old, died at home of a ruptured appendix.

I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.