Greg Giraldo Quotes

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine," seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been in outer space many times,’ bragged the cosmonaut, ‘but I have never seen any angels.’ The brain surgeon stared in amazement, but then he said, ‘And I have operated on many intelligent brains, but I have never seen a single thought.

Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect upon what must be the condition of mankind, trained from infancy to believe in these errors, and to make them the rule of their conduct.

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

Dustin Runnels came up to me and asked me if I made my peace with God today. I don't know if I ever had a fight with him.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

Christians are rare people on earth.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.