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Religion Quotes
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
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"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
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"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."
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"Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands."
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"If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth."
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"Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom."
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"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
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"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."
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"I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing."
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"First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai."
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"I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort."
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"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."
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"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
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"There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season."
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"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
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"Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable."
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"Primitive societies without religion have never been found."
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"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
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"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
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"So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that."
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"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
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"When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others."
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"We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief."
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"I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others."
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"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind."
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"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes."
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"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."
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"Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God."
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"God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him work for them. The gospel is not a Help Wanted ad. Neither is the call to to Christian service. On the contrary, the gospel commands us to give up and hang out a Help Wanted sign (this is the basic meaning of prayer). Then the gospel promises that God will work for us if we do. He will not surrender the glory of being the Giver."
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"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
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"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."
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"So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma."
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