William Floyd Quotes

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.

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

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially 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 is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth".

Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.

Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.

I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that have been fought around the world, and it's pretty ridiculous when you think about what they're actually arguing over.

I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

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.

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

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

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.

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

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

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.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.