Top 31 Quotes About Sexuality And Religion
#1. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone
#2. Religion does not stop adolescents from having sex; it only makes them feel bad about about the sex they do have.
Darrel Ray
#3. Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.
Connor Franta
#4. Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
Chris Bliss
#5. Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.
Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998
Zeena Schreck
#6. Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
Jack Kerouac
#7. Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.
Stella Young
#8. What's wrong with being naked?
Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston
Zeena Schreck
#9. The more a religion makes a person feel guilty and insecure, the harder the person works for the religion.
Darrel Ray
#10. With the concept of an afterlife, religion creates a portal to infect people by means of terror and fear of death. If one has no concept of an afterlife, then fear of eternal punishment becomes an effective way to convince people of the need to perform specific rituals and live a certain way.
Darrel Ray
#11. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them.
Kelley Armstrong
#12. I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.
David Guetta
#13. Open, fact-based sex education is among the biggest threats to religion. Knowing the facts about sex reveals the myths that religions preach.
Darrel Ray
#14. Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic experience is lacking. This was as true of the inquisitors of the medieval church, of the cruel and mystical Philip II of Spain, as it is of any modern mass murderer.
Wilhelm Reich
#16. Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
Gordon Brown
#17. [U]sing religion to treat depression often makes the problem worse. It's like treating the disease with more of the disease. It is effective in getting people to give time and money to the church, but it does not help the victim.
Darrel Ray
#18. Living a religious sexual lifestyle is tantamount to living a lie.
Religion distorts our sexuality when the majority of religious people live one life for the public and another in private. It can be as simple as living as a "happily married" couple when you are both miserable with your sex life.
Darrel Ray
#19. Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?
Randy Elrod
#20. Religion tries to give us maps of sexuality that are no better than a 2,000-year-old map of my hometown.
Darrel Ray
#21. holy, holy, holy dawn. my hips rocking into your face. the edge inviting. your name like dry wine on my tongue. your name branded into my inner thigh.
Taylor Rhodes
#22. It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or counting on a god to find you a partner.
Darrel Ray
#23. I get the concept, all right
like, why would God make me gay and then tell me it's a sin to be gay? But the freethinkers were confusing me. ' I don't get it. They have no religion, but they sort of believe in God, but they don't believe in faith?
Robin Reardon
#24. The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience.
Alan W. Watts
#25. I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.
Jessie J.
#26. All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.
Darrel Ray
#27. If it isn't a choice,then it means you must be born a certain way,either gay or straight. If you are born that way,it must mean that god made you that way,which makes it unlikely that he would damn you to hell for it. After all,it would be technically his fault.
Eileen Cook
#28. It's very hard to believe that I'm feeling this. It's like I've been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don't want to die again!
Dan Skinner
#29. I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.
Mel Gibson
#30. The religious guilt cycle interferes with learning and change. Rather than learning who he is as a sexual being, he measures himself against an impossible religious sexual standard and always comes up short. Absent religion, many unrestricted people can deal with their behavior in a rational manner.
Darrel Ray
#31. Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
Paul Di Filippo
