Alexi Zentner Quotes

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

There's something called religion, and it was invented a long time ago by people who felt very out of control with their lives, who didn't know... why the sun always rose over the mountains.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Religion is just mind control.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

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

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.