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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.

If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.