George Carlin Quotes

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

I believe in Darwin and God together.

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

I believe in a magnificent God.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

A Christian will say... "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.