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Religion Quotes
"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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"Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion."
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"Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples."
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"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
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"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."
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"When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however."
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"All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common."
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"Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment."
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"Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations."
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"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees."
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"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
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"It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization."
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"I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life."
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"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
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"No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?"
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"I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion."
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"Remember that whatsoever you desire, God is the most dependable provider."
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"The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever."
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"Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life."
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"God is universal," spluttered the priest.The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God.""And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit."Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls.""They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in."While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people."
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"In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction."
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"One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them."
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"The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world."
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"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."
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"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."
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