Religion Comparison Quotes

The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

One strength of the Communist system ... is that it has some of the characteristics of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.