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Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won’t have to go to work on your birthday.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957“Sapolsky on Religion”, Human Behavioral Biology 150/250 (Spring 2002)
- Anti-Religion
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they’re probably worshipping the same god.
Ridley Scottborn 1937Esquire interview (2012)
- God
How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.
Yuval Noah Harariborn 1976Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 6: “Building Pyramids”
- Democracy
To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan.
Carlo Acutis1991–2006Short Biography
- Christianity
I was raised Catholic. I don’t know if you can tell that from the everything about me.
John Mulaneyborn 1982The Comeback Kid (2015)
- Comedy
For those of you who aren’t Catholic, I don’t mean to exclude you, although we love to exclude you.
John Mulaneyborn 1982The Comeback Kid (2015)
- Comedy
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
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), John 3:16 (KJV)In context
For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (18 August 1790)
- Freedom
- Government
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time… But He loves you! He loves you, and He needs MONEY!
George Carlin1937–2008You Are All Diseased (1999)
- Anti-Religion
- Comedy
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 8:36 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
- Wisdom
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Virtue
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- War & Peace
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Character
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Inspiration