Quotes About How Ridiculous Religion Is

#1. Ours [religion] is without a doubt the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and the most bloody to ever infect the world.

Voltaire

#2. For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#3. Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

Richard Dawkins

#4. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.

Hassan Blasim

#5. Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.

Gene Doucette

#6. If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous ... There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Blaise Pascal

#7. Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

David Hume

#8. Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.

L. Ron Hubbard

#9. Life is ridiculous, so why not be a good guy?" That may be the only religion I have to this day.

Judd Apatow

#10. Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
[In a letter to Frederick the Great]

Voltaire

#11. Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. People say nothing can solve the Middle East problem. Not mediation, not arms, not financial aid. I say there is Something. Atheism. Suddenly everyone would be looking at each other thinking, 'What the fuck were we doing? That was insane! Why are we all wearing these ridiculous hats? Were we drunk?

Frankie Boyle

#13. The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and while rarely explicit what they're really worried about is death

Sam Harris

#14. We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

Ricky Gervais

#15. Don't do anything that someone else can do.

Edwin Land

#16. Moments one knows only death will obliterate.

John Fowles

#17. When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.

Meredith Ostrom

#18. If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us.

Steve Maraboli

#19. I liked to fuck too, but it wasn't my religion. There were too many ridiculous and tragic things about it. People didn't seem to know how to handle it. So they made a toy out of it. A toy that destroyed people.

Charles Bukowski

#20. Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

C.S. Lewis

#21. If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Robert Fulghum

#22. The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

T. K. V. Desikachar

#23. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle.

#24. Credulity is always ridiculous.

Frances Wright

#25. Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

Kate Griffin

#26. Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

C.S. Lewis

#27. Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

Cassandra Clare

#28. A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

James Gibbons

#29. Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

Steve Maraboli

#30. The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.

Noam Chomsky

#31. Sacred space" is another way of saying "with intention.

S. Kelley Harrell

#32. The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

Sam Harris

#33. I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

Johann Hari

#34. We are told that religion says: 'God gave us brains' - and then they also quickly add: '-but God doesn't want us to use them'. Ridiculous.

Christina Engela

#35. Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Mortimer Collins

#36. An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Alexander Pope