"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

"The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."

"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

"Keep your hope in the Lord."

Explore more quotes by Edmund Burke

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

"To innovate is not to reform."

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