James Norton Quotes

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

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.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

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 something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

I'm not really into religion.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

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

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I don't agree with. I'm not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

I believe religion is man-made.