Martin Amis Quotes

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

You can’t be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn’t make you a person of faith…, that makes you a schizophrenic.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.