Blaise Pascal Quotes

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Irreverence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things.

They showed to us, moreover, with much derision the symbol of the cross. They spat upon it and wiped the feces from their posteriors with it. At last they urinated on it, as on some despicable thing, and threw our cross at us....

Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

The only reason I'd bring a Bible out here is if I needed toilet paper.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.