Leslie Jordan Quotes

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that where ever others differ from them it is so far error.

But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

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.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Why do people get upset when Christians say there is only one way to Heaven? Shouldn't those who follow a particular religion believe its doctrine to be true?

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

The sin of certainty leaves no room for the rest of us.

Turk, Jew or Atheist may enter here, but not a Papist

Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.

There shall not be two religions in Arabia.

I say to you Baptists, "Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else." Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

In Spain you are a Catholic or you are nothing.