Norman Lamm Quotes

Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

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.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

God save us from religion.

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.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

There is nothing as potentially polarizing as religion.

Religion should cut politically left and right and not be politically predictable or loyally partisan.

You cannot struggle against religion. Those who have tried this have been doomed.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all. Like the majority of men who are born to a given belief, they demand the most rigorous proof of any adverse belief, but assume that their own needs none.

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

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.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

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

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.