Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Religion is all bunk.

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

Religion is induced insanity.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.