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There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.
What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.
Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.
God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.
Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.
When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Art is my God, Music is my religion.
Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you
Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
There is zero evidence for god.
We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Religion is the opiate of the people.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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