Jack Dee Quotes

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Religion is just mind control.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

God save us from religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Religion is induced insanity.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

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

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

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.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.