Religious Beliefs Quotes

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

“I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

“No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.”
― Germany Kent

“Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.”
― Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World

“Lack of insight into each other’s private qualia of God, results in a never-ending argument between two people with vastly different conceptions of the term God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

“No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Christianity, then, was in one sense the stone these builders of the American nation rejected, except for Benjamin Rush and Charles Carroll. Yet the other Founding Fathers, even as modern men, still held fast to much that was good from the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Jefferson's enthusiasm for the defense of reason, natural law, and the principle of subsidiarity is worthy of the best Christian thinkers. And there could be no better advice (properly understood) for any age than Franklin's "imitation of Jesus and Socrates, " for man needs humbly to live both the life of the spirit and the intellect. But it was the most unlikely of all of them, the Caesarist Alexander Hamilton, who, laying down his life for an enemy, proved that the lives and thought of the Founding Fathers - even in the heady days of the American revolution - could be completely transformed. Obedient to Christ's command of absolute love, Hamilton died very much in the manner of those other and greater figures of destiny, those who build the futures of two worlds, the only true revolutionaries - the saints.”
― Donald D'Elia, Spirits Of '76: A Catholic Inquiry

“Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“We don't need to tolerate each other. We need to accept each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“If to a person religion means reading books and obeying every single word from it without the slightest bit of reasoning, then such perception would only bring destruction upon the person and the world. Also there are people who use the words from those books to justify their own filthy actions. Let’s take a conservative Muslim, for example. Say, the conservative Muslim male Homo sapiens (I won’t call such creature a human, regardless of the religion, since his action here shows no sign of humanity) is found to be beating his wife. Now, if someone says to him “this is wrong”, he would naturally reply, “this is a divine thing to do, my book says so”. Now, if a Christian says “my book is older, so you should stop obeying your book and start obeying mine”, there will come the Buddhist, and say, “my book is much older still, obey mine”. Then will come the Jew, and say, “my book is even older, so just follow mine”. And in the end will come the Hindu and say “my books are the oldest of all, obey them”. Therefore referring to books will only make a mess of the human race and tear the species into pieces.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance

“Our Iraq was the one that lived on in our parents’ memories, frozen at the moment of their 1970s departure, immune to time.”
― Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

“That's what gets converts these days," Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon.”
― China Miéville, Kraken

“Indoctrination is dangerous.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Real religion begins where the tiny cocoons of belief systems end.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Plenty are the tastes and plenty are the paths.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Through the sacred verses filled with violence and self-righteousness, the minds of the angry individuals find a way to get rid of all their misery. At that unstable state of consciousness, they are drawn to the description of the Holy War. They visualize a glimmer of hope. They feel absolutely immersed in it. Finally when they emerge as holy warriors, they are no longer humans, from the emotional perspective. They emerge as wild beasts, neurologically almost unable to feel human emotions, like empathy, love, kindness and compassion. Consequently the whole world faces the wrath of the most primitive of all human elements in the name of God’s judgment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Other than the substantial physiological impact of prayer/meditation, there is another much simpler mind-body intervention that helps all religious and spiritual individuals in all walks of life, regardless of whether they pray regularly or not. It is commonly known as faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Historical experiences of this absolute godliness gave rise to all the scriptures in the world. Hence, the scriptures themselves don’t account for the actual globally prevalent psychological element of faith or divinity in the human society. Faith is a crucial evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping- mechanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“From a medical standpoint, the third and the most probable explanation is that Jesus was indeed dead, and what his disciples experienced were mere hallucinations evoked by the grief over the loss of their beloved teacher. It is clinically known as “Post-Bereavement Hallucinations Experiences” or PBHE.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

“isms" and "ologies" are mere constructs of the historic planetary viewpoint. While Divine Consciousness awakened rests upon the infinite and Universal...”
― Leland Lewis, Angel Stories. Angelic Tales of the Universe. Tales 7 through 12

“You don't need anyone to tell you what to believe or who to worship,....You don't need to follow any set of rituals. You don't need to worry about an angry God not allowing you into heaven. You don't need to march into these great temples of intolerance and be told what is God's inerrant and infallible word, because the simple truth is that nobody really knows that...All I know is that you're not slaves and you're not part of any grand master plan. ...you are all God's children....You create your own destiny. And you need to accept that responsibility and put aside your egocentricity and stop looking for excuses in tired old myths. You make your own fate every single day. You need to look after each other. You need to look after the land that feeds you and gives you the air you breathe. You need to assume your duty toward all of God's creation. And you need to accept the credit for the good and take the blame for the bad.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign