Brad Pitt Quotes

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.

When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.

Believe no one unless he follows your religion

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it

We represent the majority of the people in Alabama who hate niggerism, Catholicism, Judaism, and all the isms of the whole world.