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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.”
“Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.”
“Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.”
Source: Life Ahead
“Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.”
Source: Life Ahead
“Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.”
“Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.”
“Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.”
“Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.”
“Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.”
“Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.”
Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics
“Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.”
“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.”
“Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”
Source: Magnalia Christi Americana
“Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.”
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual inquiry, but moral inquiry. Because God's law trumps human law, people who think they're obeying God can easily get cut off from their own moral instincts.
And these moral contortions don't always lie in the realm of theological game-playing. They can have real-world consequences: from genocide to infanticide, from honor killings to abandoned gay children, from burned witches to battered wives to blown-up buildings.”
“Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a commitment to peace and nonviolence, and care for women and widows and orphans. What has destroyed a coming together is men's interpretation of religion.”
“Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.”
“Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But then people distort it and use it as an excuse to be a bully. It's sad, but that's the way it's worked for a several thousand years now.”
“Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.”
“Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.”
“Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.”
“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”
“Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?”
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."”
“Religion can often be the fastest route to ignorance.”
Source: Dark Rooms
“Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has become a goal serving the ends of a priest or a demagogue and rest of the living are merely tools to serve that end. If it is not to become a fossil, it has to be a living faith serving the cherished values of the living.”
“Religion can Only bind up the people, not devide the people. Because every religion are just branches of love...!”
Source: व्यस्त लोगों के लिये ध्यान
“Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Religion can only do two things for mankind; turn them into monster or stupid.”
“Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.”
“Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!”
“Religion can't separate us, politics can't divide us, wealth can't classify us. We're all one! We're children of LOVE!”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects....”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“Religion? Choose the truth path, true doctrine and true faith. Not all of the religion are safe except the religion of the Church of Christ. those who entered the door of Christ will be saved.”
“Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.”
Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture
“Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“Religion concerns primarily with the moral sphere of life. It concerns with the moral conscience and strengthening it to elicit positive actions and behaviour. The developments in technology through modern science are in no way a replacement of moral values. Just like we can survive without sun neither in ancient times nor to this date, the same way religion is also a fundamental part of human society by giving it values and meaningfulness.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - II
“Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.”
Source: The spectator
“Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.”
“Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.”
“Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.”
“Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.”
“Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.”
“Religion deals with both earth and heaven, both time and eternity. Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself. This means, at bottom, that the Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so that the soul will have a chance after it is changed. Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Religion deals with the heart (feelings/emotions) while science only focuses on the mind (increasing the intellectual)—However, we need something that can link the heart and the mind at the same time.”
“Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.”