Rae Carson Quotes

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

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?

May it please you to take away my life rather than the old religion.

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

There are people of good will who believe that. But there are other people of good will who do not …. It is fundamentally a religious question …. People of great faith … are trying to impose that faith on everyone.

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god.

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

All the drama you see about Christianity or the Catholic religion? People are seeing through that, and there are really authentic people out there with faith.

I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging.

I think that religious culture and the industry of religion pretty much deserves most of the heat that it gets.

In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts.

I don't mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. "I prayed very hard and then the fairy came." "Did he? Good. Have a biscuit." I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. "You have to let the fairy into your heart." Look, I wouldn't let him into my garden, okay? I'd shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn't. Now have another biccie and be quiet, will you please?

I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks ... you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.