David Milch Quotes

The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

I think people can believe in anything.

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.

No, I'm not a scientologist.

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

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

… a cult

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.

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 hold that religion and faith are two different things.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

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

Religion is a mixed blessing.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

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.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Religion is just mind control.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.