Religion Delusion Quotes

#1. Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

Richard Dawkins

#2. 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

#3. For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

#4. Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

Stephen King

#5. [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Sam Harris

#6. Believing without evidence is politely called religion, but more accurately called delusion.

Peter B. Lockhart

#7. We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

Sigmund Freud

#8. If you meet the Buddha, kill him.

Linji Yixuan

#9. The problem is that faith based upon twisted information is nothing more than delusion - and delusion leads to division. It divided humanity, taking us into endless wars - separating us by race, religion, and politics.

R. Brown

#10. Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.

Michael Ruse

#11. The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such ...

Sigmund Freud

#12. Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.

Neal Stephenson

#13. When one person sees or hears something that isn't there, it's called a delusion. When a small group of people have the same experience, it's a cult. Millions of people? Religion.

Jim Hall

#14. To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

Stefan Molyneux

#15. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

Bill Watterson

#16. There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a luminosity to it. Just one Christian of that type can dispel years worth of diabolical delusion.

Geoffrey Wood

#17. A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Robert Todd Carroll

#18. Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

Anthony Storr

#19. The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

Manu Joseph

#20. Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and 'this' (akram vignan) is a science itself.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. We Neuroscientists have come a long way in proving that God is neither a Delusion nor an Almighty Being watching over life on Earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. I termed this state of attaining God, as 'Absolute Unity Qualia'.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.

Philip Schaff

#23. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

Robert M. Pirsig

#24. I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

Richard Dawkins

#25. It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

Moncure D. Conway

#26. To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

Ruth Marcus

#27. In no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.

Jeremy Bentham

#28. Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able to accept religion it captured his heart and enslaved his mind. The supreme delusion united with the supreme host.

C.J. Anderson

#29. Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Stefan Molyneux

#30. I suppose the spiritual trance is harder to break than the religious one because the delusion is more difficult to distinguish. You have a quasi-cloud of ideas that include wonderful concepts of openness and altruism without the blatant anthropomorphism of religion.

Christopher Zzenn Loren