“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small…”— Richard Dawkins, amazon.com
“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”— Richard Dawkins, amazon.com
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”— Richard Dawkins, amazon.com
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service…”— John McCain, amazon.com
“I’m pro marriage. Nearly 40 years of ups and downs to back that up. But when we as a church culture demonize divorce as the worst possible outcome - the sin of all sins - we truly have no clue on this ever loving earth what some people are enduring. We do not submit to abuse. NO.”— Beth Moore, twitter.com
“Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.”— Eric Clapton, amazon.com
“I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized…”— Eric Clapton, amazon.com
“In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity…it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong….I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and…”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org
“This ruptured syllogism — If I understand myself, I’ll get better — made me question the way I’d come to worship self-awareness itself, a brand of secular humanism: Know thyself, and act accordingly. What if you reversed this? Act, and know thyself differently. Showing up for a meeting, for a ritual…”— Leslie Jamison, time.com
“This is a religious holiday. When has religion ever caused any trouble?”— Tina Fey, Kay Cannon, Kenneth Parcell, Jack Mcbrayer, imdb.com
“Priest: Don’t you have faith? Jack: I have faith in things I can see, and buy, and regulate. Capitalism is my religion.”— Tina Fey, Jack Burditt, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“Is that what God does? He helps? Tell me, why didn't God help my innocent friend who died for no reason while the guilty roam free? Okay, fine. Forget the one-offs. How about the countless wars declared in his name? Okay, fine. Let's skip the random, meaningless murder for a second, shall we? How ab…”— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com
“Evil can't be scientifically defined. It's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably linked to religion and mythology.”— Erica Messer, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
“Abbi, why wouldn't we be rating them on dick size? It's all I can see. Those b-ball shorts are God's gift. If you train your eyes, you can see their religion.”— Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Ilana Wexler, Ilana Glazer, imdb.com
“Scientology manages to erode what you, yourself, believe, replacing it with a certainty that the answers to all of life's problems can be found only in the Tech.”— Sands Hall, lennyletter.com
“Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk.”— George R. R. Martin, Tyrion Lannister, amazon.com
“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org