Tim Minchin Quotes

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

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.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

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.

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.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

God save us from religion.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

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

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women, and coercive toward children.

When a man is required to believe certain doctrines, he is not free to think. A creed is to keep the mind from inquiry. Questions lead to doubt, and doubt is the death of faith.

Religious clerics have a big share in the rise on intolerance towards minorities. A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is low and people are naïve when it comes on opinion making, it becomes easy to be successful in manipulating people’s minds. The manipulation of their opinions by those who are extremists in their views and beliefs always meet disaster. These clerics have played an ugly role most of the times and their preaching of hate speech always led to more sufferings and disaster for minorities

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.