Pastoral Resources

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.