Two Religions Quotes

• I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Two, Guy

  "A Place for My Stuff". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1981.

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• If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

  Voltaire

  Cutting, Land, Two

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Prayer, Hands

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• The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Religious, Atheist, Intelligent

  "A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Volume I". Book by John Mackinnon Robertson, 1906.

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• When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Two, Issues

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Can you really put a price on annoying two religions at once?

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Annoying

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• We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Christian, Practice, Two

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• England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Two, Religion

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• I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Thinking, Keys, Two

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• For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.

  Duff Cooper

  Two, People, Catholic

  Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Country, Compassion

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “May Your Hearts Blossom: Chicago Speech”, p.36, M A Center

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• Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

  Richard Dawkins

  Two, Religion

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• Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Law, Two, Today

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• It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.

  Ferdinand Christian Baur

  Jesus, Two, Settling

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• I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Country, Two, Insulting

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• For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Buddhism, Two, Differences

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2005). “The Anti-Christ”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Practice, Two

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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