Religious Quotes

Just some religious quotes for no other reason than I found them telling...

And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?"
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed."
And Jesus replied, "What?"
--Unknown

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed.
--Nietzsche about Christianity, "Will to Power

God is playing a comic to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
--Montaigne

I do not believe in a God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
--Albert Einstein

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
--Unknown

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
--Thomas Jefferson