Scott Adams Quotes

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

It is important to not be hostile to what a greater part of society has embraced, whether as Christians, Hindus or Muslims. It is important to respect that because whether you believe or not in the existence of a superior being, humanity does believe in that.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.

There's truth in every religion. Christians believe that there's truth in every religion. But we just believe that there's one savior. We believe we can learn truth - I've learned a lot of truth from different religions. Because they all have a portion of the truth. I just believe there is one savior, Jesus Christ.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

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.

I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing -​ and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said -​ the basic things he laid down about love and goodness -​ and not what people say he said.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers and going, "You shouldn't do that because it's a sin against God." It's like, you know what? We're people. We're human beings. We're fallible. We have faults.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.

One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.