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“Religion is pure hypnosis”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.”
“Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.”
“Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
“Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism.”
Source: Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring
“Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.”
“Religion is right relationship with a righteous God.”
“Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'”
“Religion is scepticism with God occupying the seat of reason.”
Source: Kalam
“Religion is separate from the institution of the state.”
“Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.”
Source: My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography
“Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.”
“Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.”
“Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.”
“Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.”
Source: Letters: 1910-1926
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
“Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.”
“Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.”
Source: Chronicles of the Black Company
“Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to get warped.”
“Religion is something that you need to do in silence.”
“Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.”
“Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.”
“Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!”
“Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.”
“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.”
“Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.”
Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition
“Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.”
“Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).”
“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.”
Source: Aspirations of nature
“Religion is the balm of the people.”
“Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.”
Source: A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents
“Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.”
“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.”
“Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.”
“Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.”
Source: The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction
“Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.”
“Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.”
Source: A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects
“Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.”
Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].
“Religion is the entrance to your mind, faith is the doorway to your heart, and love is the hallway to your soul.”
“Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.”
Source: Between Heaven and Earth
“Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.”
“Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.”
“Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.”