Ann Landers Quotes

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

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's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

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.

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.

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

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

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

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

I think people can believe in anything.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

No religion can be built on force.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

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

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.