Faith Reason Quotes - Page 2

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.

Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men

I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means

Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds

It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories

What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope.

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them

Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so

Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.

Courage is being who you are.Courage is sacred of thyself.

You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.

God does not take sides. He is always on the side of the winner

I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.

My wish before I die, to keep the faith.

Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction

Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world

A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials.

Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story

Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul

Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running.

God is what you imagine him to be

Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.

Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some

When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance

I am not afraid of what god can do to me. He is already doing it

It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance