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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Anti-Religion
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 3
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 8
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 6
- Anti-Religion
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960American Gods (2001), Ch. 3
- Ideas
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Christianity
I do not regard Jainism or Buddhism as separate from Hinduism. Hinduism believes in the oneness not of merely all human life but in the oneness of all that lives.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Mahatma Gandhi. October 1927. The Collected Works, Volume 35, New Delhi, 1968, pp. 166-67. Quoted in Goel, S.R. History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1996)
The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwara of Hindus.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Harijan, 14-5-1938, pp. 110-11; and The Hindustan Times, 5-5-1938, in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 67, p. 64
- God
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gatesborn 1955“In Search of the Real Bill Gates,” Time (13 January 1997)
- Anti-Religion
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.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 (1776), Ch. 2
- History
Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931Your Thought and Mine
- God
It is characteristic of theistic “tolerance” that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
Emma Goldman1869–1940The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)
- Anti-Religion
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remain’d to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Prayer
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater1909–1998Said in July 1981, on Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell’s opposition to Sandra Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court nomination
- Christianity
- Clever Jabs
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Ever Since Darwin (1977), “The Reverend Thomas’ Dirty Little Planet”, p. 141
- Science