Andrew Denton Quotes

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

If the Shiites in a Sunni-dominated country insisted on practicing their religion openly, then … the Sunni state had no choice but to wage war on them.

If we look back into history for the character of the present sects of Christianity, we shall find that few have not in their turn been persecutors, and complainers of persecution.

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on non-adherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

Adherents of almost all religions, as they move away in time from the source, are invariably known to have employed coercion either to keep people within the fold of their religion, or to convert others into their faith.

Catholic Menace to Our Government

I would like to regard the Inquisition as an aberration as far as Christian history is concerned. And I think the Taliban would be an aberration as far as contemporary Muslim civilization is concerned

For the love of the Faith [Islam] I became enemies of the Hindus and pagans.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.