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“Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).”
“Religion [Dharma] means to do good for others and non-religion [Adharma] means to hurt others. This is referred to as religion-nonreligion [Dharma-Adharma]. Science is to transcend religion and non-religion.”
“Religion (dharma) means to give happiness in any way to any living being. And to hurt any living being in any way is wrong doing (non-religion). This definition of religion is all one needs to understand.”
Source: The Essence Of All Religion
“Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).”
“Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.”
Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)
“Religion didn't create greed. Man did.”
“Religion dies hard in the Irish.”
“Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.”
“Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.”
“Religion does a lot of good, especially the loving kind, like at Grace Church. I know people who went to a more liberal kind of Christianity and were happy with that. The problem is, for me, there was a process involved in moving from Pentecostalism to a more liberal theology, like Grace Church. What makes me different is that process didn't stop, and it took me all the way. In the end, I couldn't help feeling that all religion, even the most loving kind, is just a speed bump in the progress of the human race.”
“Religion does have a tendency to cling to power. That is the nature of the beast. It lends spiritual credibility to barbaric acts, is given protection and sustenance in return.”
Source: Life As A Kite
“Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!”
“Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.”
“Religion does not care about your purpose or determination; it just wants you to live like hell.”
“Religion does not censure or exclude
Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.”
Source: Poems
“Religion does not come from God; it is a pattern, a special product of the mind.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.”
“Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.”
“Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.”
Source: De Profundis and Other Writings
“Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.”
Source: The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga
“Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller
“Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.”
Source: Death's Heretic
“Religion doesn’t lie, people do.”
“Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.”
“Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.”
“Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.”
Source: Under God
“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.”
“Religion equals logic... but the logic of the human mind can't perceptible it”
“Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.”
Source: The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection
“Religion exists for those who are afraid of a direct experience of God.”
“Religion explains that this universe had a beginning and it was created. After a long period of time, humans inhabited the planet earth in this universe. Humans were created and given this life by the Creator in order to test who among them live a virtuous and ethical life. During this life, there will be temptations to achieve short term material benefit, but unethical conduct will make humans deserve punishment in life hereafter. In contrast, virtuous actions of justice, fairness, generosity, kindness, cooperation and sacrifice will deserve deterministic rewards in life hereafter. Since this life is a trial, one cannot get deterministic rewards in this life. But, every intentional act will get deterministic justice in life hereafter. That is the basic essence and message of religion. It does not matter whether life on this earth came to exist by whichever material process. Religion informs about the ‘will’, the source and the purpose behind creation of humans.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Religion facilitates terrorists' goals by providing moral legitimacy to their cause, as well.”
Source: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence
“Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.”
“Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.”
Source: Outlines of Philosophy and Literature
“Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.”
Source: 1816-1828
“Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we'd be crippled with indecision. But with religion pointing the way, we can feel confident in our choice to picket our children's elementary school when we find out the art teacher is gay.”
Source: I Am America
“Religion fosters servility and solipsism.”
“Religion frees us from the existential emptiness that otherwise rules the material dimension and can kill the soul long before death claims the body.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: Interfaith 21st Century Edition
“Religion gets in the way of morality.”
“Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.”
“Religion gives a dignity to distress.”
Source: Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author
“Religion gives meaning to actions and moral choices. Else, both mass murderers and honest go through the same biological decay of their skulls after they die. One can decide to do an act morally as an end in itself and not merely as a means to a material end with the knowledge that there are deterministic rewards beyond the interpersonal relations in the world. If one believes in this life only; then that person will be more selfish to get everything in this life. If we restrict our existence confined to this world alone with no accountability in the afterlife; then, I am "just" as long as I am "just" in front of the society even though there could be crimes that the society could never have seen me doing. Contrarily, I could be regarded as "unjust" by the society if it convicts me based on evidence which could have been untrue. Life hereafter gives meaning to all our actions by promising each and every soul a just reward.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Religion gives the illusion of serving God, but the reality is you're serving the men who invented it.”
“Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.”
“Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.”
“Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.”