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“Religion is at the root of a lot of man's problems.
Why?
Because man interprets religion as he sees fit.”
“Religion is bad and drugs are good.”
“Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”
“Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.”
“Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.”
“Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.”
“Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.”
“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Religion is behavior and not mere belief.”
“Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.”
“Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.”
“Religion is beyond the realm of logic, but if any priest, pundit or maulvi tries to justify his religion with logic, it sounds absurd and illogical.”
“Religion is born out of questions, not answers.”
Source: The Sacredness of Questioning Everything
“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.”
“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory.”
Source: The nature of the universe
“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Religion is caught, not taught.”
“Religion is civilization, the highest.”
“Religion is collective insanity.”
“Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.”
“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.”
Source: THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION
“Religion is complicated- the emphasis here being on the verb -is-. Religion as we see it today is the product of many millennia of evolutionary history. Neither the Olympian pantheon nor the Roman magisterium was part of religion in our ancestral world. To understand religion as a cultural adaptation, we must understand what it was when it first emerged, and what kind of world it was born into.”
Source: Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
“Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.”
“Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.”
“Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.”
“Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.”
“Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.”
“Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.”
“Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.”
“Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.”
“Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.”
Source: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...
“Religion is divisive. People kill because of it. I think one day religion will be seen as just as intolerant and wrong as racism.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.”
“Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.”
“Religion is easy and not hardship and whoever hard-struggled it but it overpowered him”
“Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.”
“Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.”
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
“Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling”
Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible
“Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
“Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.”
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
“Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.”
“Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”
Source: Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.”
“Religion is for human, Humans are not for human....”
“Religion is for man and not man for religion”
Source: Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)
“Religion is for people that don’t want to go to hell spirituality is for people that have already been there.”
Source: Recreating Patrick: An Inside Job