N. T. Wright Quotes

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.

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

People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma.

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.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

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

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

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

I believe that dogma is often evil.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

It is in the uncomprisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma that the danger lies.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

Piety is oppressive. It takes all the air out of thought.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth".

Never wage war on religion, nor upon seemingly holy institutions, for this thing has too great a force upon the minds of fools.

[Religious] superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

What happens when we put belief in front of reason? When we even put belief above human life?

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.