Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

I never agreed with the message of the Catholic Church - and still don't to this day.

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Man made God in his own image.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

Sacred texts always offend reason.

The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.