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“Religion is not simply a story to believe, it’s a lens that distorts reality.”
“Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)”
“Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.”
Source: Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of a Freethinker
“Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.”
“Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.”
“Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.”
“Religion is not the biggest part of my life. I'm always playing baseball. But it's certainly a part of it, and having a faith in something. I've always worn a cross, and it's been a part of my game. It's always there with me.”
“Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.”
“Religion is not the most important thing.”
“Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.”
Source: The God Delusion
“Religion is not to go to God by forsaking the world but to find Him in it. Our faith is to believe in our essential oneness with Him. "God is in us and we in Him" must be made the most fundamental faith of all religions.”
“Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.”
“Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.”
“Religion is nothing but a cult. It is created from within this body. Whatever you are seeing outside, you have already seen before within you. Here is the difference between Western and Eastern philosophy. They say, first we see outside and then take inside. We say first we see inside and then take outside. First is Soul or Atman and then the universe within Atman.”
“Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.”
“Religion is nothing but an organized form of Mafia created by the Mafia for the Mafia. It is an organized group of criminals to justify their sins and criminal acts via the evil holy books written by their own edicts.”
Source: Slaves of the Book
“Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Religion is nothing if it be not the deepest common-sense.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
“Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.”
“Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.”
“Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers”
“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.”
“Religion is often politics made sacred.”
“Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.”
“Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.”
“Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude.”
“Religion is one of the oils with which we alleviate the friction between those who have a lot and those who have nothing.”
“Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.”
“Religion is one; theologies are many. Theology contaminates religion. People have different theologies. They have been fighting because of theology. Theology means the philosophy about God, the logic about God. It is all meaningless because there is no way to prove God. There is no way to disprove either. Argumentation is just irrelevant. Yes, one can experience god but one cannot prove and that’s what theology goes on doing. Humanity is growing towards that awareness where theology will be dropped and religion will be accepted purely as an experience.”
“Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself. No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.”
Source: Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey
“Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.”
“Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.”
“Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.”
Source: Marxism, Socialism and Religion
“Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.”
Source: Selected essays
“Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.”
“Religion is paradoxical. It emerged out of intergroup competition, yet it has a remarkable power to unite. It sets people apart from one another, yet can also draw vastly different people together. Long ago we envisioned relationship with spiritual beings. In one sense these relationships were very mundane -they served practical human needs. The practical side of these relationships is also the source of their power to divide us, to pit one group against another. The divine side is in their capacity to quietly but persistently call us to transcend ourselves and find common ground for trust.”
Source: Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
“Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.”
“Religion is peer pressure from the intuitively blind.”
“religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.”
“religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.”
Source: Wormwood: A Drama of Paris
“Religion is pointing toward the moon”
“Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.”
“Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.”
“Religion is primary. Unless a culture is aspiring toward the good, the true, and the beautiful, and wants the good and the true, really worships God, it readily worships Satan. If we turn away from God, our culture becomes dominated by "Real Crime Stories" and rap music and other spew... When the culture becomes corrupt, then the businesses that serve the culture also become corrupt... Secular culture is in general corrupt, and degraded, and depraved. Because I don't believe in secular culture, I think parochial schools are the only real schools.”
“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.”
Source: Styles of Radical Will
“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.”