Mary Daly Quotes

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Although it seems that religion and politics should be completely opposed and contradict each other in their principles and their maxims, they nevertheless get on very well, …they defend and support each other. Religion backs up the government, terrible though it may be; conversely, the government backs up religion, dumb and vain though it may be…. the priests … strongly recommend to everyone to obey magistrates, princes and sovereigns, as established by God to rule the others, under pain of curse and eternal damnation; …princes have their people pay respect to priests, and give those priests good salaries and revenues, and maintain them in the vain and abusive office of their fake ministry. They compel the people to regard as sacred and holy everything those ministers do … There again, this is the way abuses, errors, superstition, delusion and deceit have established themselves in the world, and how they remain in spite of all the misfortunes that they cause to the poor peoples…

Every religion there's something foul going on.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

Each single thing can be referred more easily to the hand and rod of God. This is nothing more or less than wishing to please God by a lie.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Human nature is weak enough and sufficiently beset by temptations without government adding to them and generating crime.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

[I am rescuing] the Philosophy of Jesus and the pure principles which he taught, from the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms as instruments of riches and power for themselves.

Those who make laws and prescribe penalties are also men subject to temptations, and may also miscarry through ignorance, heedlessness, or sinister respects.

The slaveholders are publishing, as in so many legibly written volumes, in the faces of their mulatto offspring, the sad, sickening evidences of their abominable immoralities…What a religion must that be, which declares that the system, of which these deeds are part, is ordained, sanctioned, owned and blest, of God!

A sugar-coated Satan sandwich If you look between the buns, the contents are antithetical to everything the great religions teach

Go where you will, read history as you may, and you will find that it is the men who invented religion, and the women who believed in it. They are the last to give it up. The physically weak dread change. Inexperience fears the unknown. Ignorance shuns thought or development. The dependent cannot be brave

Shall piety be a license to immoral deeds, and shall religion be regarded as affording the occasion for all riotous extravagance?

The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them.

The Koran is a newcomer to tradition in this manner [Female Genital Mutilation]. As a male society, the men took parts of religion that satisfied men and inflated it. The parts of the Koran that helped women, they ignored

They were the sort of people that lynch Negroes, that mistake hoodlumism for wit, and cunning for intelligence, that attend revivals and fight and fornicate in the bushes afterwards. They were undiluted “Anglo-Saxons. They were the sovereign voter. It was so horrible it seemed unreal.

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

We all have things we're ashamed of.

The biggest threats to faith aren't anything outside of it: they come bearing the name. It's why I find it especially important to call it out - also why I find it especially repulsive when people who crow the loudest about being Christians and use it as a money-making scheme utterly betray the faith when not on camera or in a crowd.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.