Belief

"Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge"

"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."

"Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana"

"I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life."

"On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots"

"There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity"

"It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories"

"Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story"

"The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods"

"When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance"

"All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody."

"An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope"

"Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running."

"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet"

"All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god."

"It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance"

"No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs"

"Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so"

"No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods."

"Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful."