17 Quotes by Pat Condell

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt.

If you’re looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you’ve got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.

The best thing about religion is that it’s so transparently absurd it can’t possibly last forever. I’m convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I’m still around when that happens.

But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.

Suspicion of, or dislike of, Islam is not a phobia. It’s an honest, healthy reaction to the evidence that has been provided. But.

People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there’s a difference between practicing your religion – which everyone has the right to do – and rubbing your religion in people’s faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what’s happening here.

Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don’t think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.

Centuries ago religion may have had a role to play in maintaining social order, but now it’s a threat to social order.