Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

God save us from religion.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

A scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

… religion is poison