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Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible for a moral code: it advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because: we need more atheists — and nothin’ will get you there faster than readin’ the damn Bible.
Penn Jilletteborn 1955“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?” Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2 episode 6 (6 May 2004)
- Anti-Religion
- Atheism
In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah1876–1948Broadcast to the people of the United States of America on Pakistan (February 1948)
- Government
Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. It has taught equality of man, justice and fairplay to everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah1876–1948Broadcast to the people of the United States of America on Pakistan (February 1948)
- Democracy
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.
JAJoan of Arc1412–1431From the trial transcript, as quoted in The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994)
- Christianity
Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ!
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Homily of His Holiness John Paul II for the Inauguration of his Pontificate, St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on Sunday, 22 October 1978
- Christianity
- Courage
Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.
Mike Johnsonborn 1972Interview with Sean Hannity, Fox News (26 October 2023)
- Christianity
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
James Joyce1882–1941Stephen Hero (1944)
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context
- Christianity
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (2 of 3)In context
- Freedom
- Patriotism
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use⁠—silence, exile and cunning.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Art
- Freedom
Zeal to do all that is in one’s power is, in truth, a proof of piety.
Julian331–363Fragment of a Letter to a Priest (tr. W. C. Wright, ii, 1913)
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam1931–2015In: Philosophy & Social Action (2003)
Whatever, over and above good life-conduct, man fancies that he can do to become well-pleasing to God is mere religious delusion and counterfeit worship of God.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793), Book IV, Part 2, Section 2
- God
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Stride Toward Freedom (1958), pp. 28-29
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
- Christianity