Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

Religion is all bunk.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Religion is just mind control.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

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.

I believe religion is man-made.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.