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“Religion is a byproduct of fear.”
“Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.”
“Religion is a collective insanity.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
“Religion is a common cover-up for the direct experience of God.”
“Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.”
“Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.”
“Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.”
“Religion is a conspiracy theory.
"God did it" is no different than "the lizard aliens did it."
Like religion, conspiracy theories are popular among the ignorant, because they offer simplistic answers to difficult questions.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.”
“Religion is a defense against the experience of God.”
“Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.”
Source: Man's own show: civilization
“Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.”
“Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.”
“Religion is a flimsy construction of rituals infused with arbitrary power. The gestures have always been empty; behind them stand hustlers no different from you. All that is required is a convincing performance.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.”
Source: Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler
“Religion is a framework designed for the sole purpose of enhancing our relationship with God. And at the point that it becomes the focus of our worship instead of that which facilitates it, it has become a religion unto itself. And that is a cult of the most cultish sort that I can imagine.”
“Religion is a good invention in times of stress.”
“Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.”
“Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.”
“Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Paine: His Epoch-making Writings in Religion, Government, Human Rights and International Relations
“Religion is a human invention. It is a device with which a few people control the masses, employing fear and divisiveness. Allowing ourselves to be divided on the lines of religion is being outright stupid. Because judging and alienating – hating – another human being causes, above all, your own suffering.”
“Religion is a language, if you can speak it, it's a bridge, if not, then it's a barrier.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.”
“Religion is a light in the fog.”
“Religion is a looking glass. When you put that on, you see Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. Take a step back, throw away the glasses and look again; you start to see people.”
Source: The Artist
“Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter.”
“Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.”
Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.
[From Bizet, by William Dean. Colier Books, 1962]”
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.”
“Religion is a mere question of geography.”
“Religion is a mixed blessing.”
“Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.”
“Religion is a nasty word, literally. The word comes from the Latin 'religare,' which means 'to bind'.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“Religion is a natural phenomenon of the human mind, but today, in the hands of theoretical bloodsucking religious preachers it has become a lifeless mockery. Now is the time that you take back religion from those intellectual idiots and place it where it belongs, in the temple of your inner cosmos.”
“Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.”
Source: Divided & Conquered
“Religion is a paintbrush; its beauty depends on the hand that holds it.”
Source: when the DEAD aren't Dead...: tales of terror!
“Religion is a paradox; you have to become nothing to become all. You have to become nobody to become a god. You have to prepare for nothingness, and then the whole descends in you. Jesus says that the meek, the humble and the egoless belong to the kingdom of God.
So the person who is not is the greatest, and the person who thinks that he is the greatest is just an idiot. People like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte,
Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Ghingis Khan, George W. Bush are basically stupid. Their whole desire is psychopathy, narcissism and megalomania. They create much suffering for themselves and other people. They go on stuffing their ego like a balloon, and then one day it bursts.
Every day the ego goes on becoming bigger and bigger, and a moment comes when the puncture of the balloon happens, and everything goes flat. The ego is the roots cause of it, it is bound to create hell for yourself and for other people.
Egolessness is paradise. The moment that you are meek, humble and egoless, you will enter into the kingdom of God. Then the last should be first. To be egoless is to be in the kingdom of God.
But everybody is trying to be the greatest. And the whole project is doomed from the beginning, because it cannot succeed. It has never succeeded, because it is against existence. It is trying to work against existence.
Ego means that you are trying to win against the whole, which is not possible.The part can never win over the whole. No-ego means that you dissolve with the whole. Then suddenly life becomes a totally new phenomenon. Then life has tremendous love, silence, joy, truth, freedom and beauty.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.”
“Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.”
“Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle.”
“Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.”
“Religion is a right, fundamentalism is not.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.”
“Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.”
“Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.”
“Religion is a smile on a dog.”
“Religion is a Snare and a Racket.”