Richard Francis Burton Quote

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant? In...

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it...

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PRE...

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who...

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.