“That nobody is really a skeptic -- even while philosophizing -- becomes clear if you watch what we philosophers do, not what we say.”— David Shatz, amazon.com
“An assumption that lies behind the questions we religious philosophers get asked is that philosophers internalize the conclusions that their intellects draw -- and live by them. David Hume taught us otherwise. Hume was fascinated by the divorce between philosophy and practical life. In my study, he…”— David Shatz, amazon.com
“I didn't come to religion, I merely managed to hold on to it in conducive circumstances.”— David Shatz, amazon.com
“Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.”— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, books.google.com
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress yo…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were a…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“For every time you say that there's a purpose behind one person's success, you invalidate billions of people. You say there is a purpose to their suffering. And that's just cruel.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“If a plane crashes, and one person survives, everyone thanks God. They say: 'God had a purpose for that person. God saved her for a reason!' Do we not realize how cruel that is? Do we not realize how cruel it is to say that if God had a purpose for that person, he also had a purpose in killing every…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“I'm an ordained pastor. But it's just stopped making sense to me. You see people doing terrible things in the name of religion, and you think: 'Those people believe just as strongly as I do. They're just as convinced as I am.' And it just doesn't make sense anymore. It doesn't make sense to believe…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don't know what he looks like.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was still saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’.”— Abdul Sattar Edhi, facebook.com
“Last time I asked God for a favor and stopped to admire a view, my son got shot. I try not to mix it up with the Almighty anymore. Best we stay out of each others way.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com