Natascha McElhone Quotes

A good deal of the political battle of the future will be a conflict between religion and unbelief:

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

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

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.