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“Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.”
“Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816
“Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same "reasoning" to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they'd soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found their child applying that kind of "reasoning" on a homework assignment they'd wonder what the hell was the wrong with their child.”
“Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.”
Source: Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909
“Religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order. The theory of relativity is not a religion, because (at least so far) there are no human norms and values that are founded on it. Football is not a religion because nobody argues that its rules reflect superhuman edicts. Islam, Buddhism and Communism are all religions, because all are systems of human norms and values that are founded on belief in a superhuman order.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."”
“Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.”
Source: Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought
“Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain that way. Religion is something natural. To ask from where you come is relevant; to ask, 'Who am I?' is going to remain relevant always. But the modern mind has created a climate of atheism so you cannot ask such questions. If you ask, people laugh. If you talk about such things, people feel bored If you start inquiring in these ways, people think you are slipping out of your sanity. Religion is no longer a welcome inquiry.”
“Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.”
“Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.”
“Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.”
“Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.”
“Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.”
Source: Life and destiny
“Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.”
Source: Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment
“Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.”
Source: It Takes a Village
“religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.”
“Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.”
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
“Religion is action, not behavior. Human nature itself is behavior.”
“Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.”
“Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.”
“Religion is all bunk.”
“Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.”
“Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“Religion is always falling apart.”
Source: Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion
“Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.”
Source: The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works
“Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.”
“Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.”
“Religion is an antivirus for your soul.”
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.”
Source: MOSES AND MONOTHEISM
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.”
Source: NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.”
“Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.”
“Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.”
“Religion is an endless school where the individual learns the words of God, but the final exam will be taken in heaven.”
“Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines.”
“Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don’t hold up well under scrutiny.”
“Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Source: Major Works
“Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.”
“Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.”
“Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.”
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion”
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
“Religion is an irrational construct.”
“Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.”
“Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.”
“Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.”
“Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious