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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
Source: Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'
“Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.”
“Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.”
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." Paul Tillich”
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.”
Source: Writings on religion
“Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.”
Source: Collected Works
“Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.”
“Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.”
“Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.”
“Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.”
“Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.”
“Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor”
Source: The Happy Atheist
“Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.”
“Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.”
“Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.”
“Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.”
“Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights.”
“Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.”
“Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.”
“Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.”
“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.”
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
“Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.”
Source: RELIGION IN THE MAKING
“Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.”
Source: RELIGION IN THE MAKING
“Religion is what you do with your solitude.”
“Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.”
Source: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Religion is where you follow everything. Science is where you challenge everything.”
“Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”
“Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.”
Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!”
“Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.”
Source: Zori 2ª Parte
“Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.”
Source: Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good
“Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.”
“Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.”
Source: Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion
“Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”
Source: The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots
“Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.”
“Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.”
“Religion ist die Unfähigkeit des menschlichen Verstandes, Ereignissen ins Gesicht zu sehen, die er nicht versteht.”
“Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...].”
Source: Spieltrieb
“Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.”
“Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which perhaps existed a couple of centuries ago is absolutely impossible. On the contrary, in order to combat modern materialistic mores, as religion must, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.”
“Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.”
Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
“Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.”
“Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.”
“Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.”
“Religion landed men on hell. Science landed men on the moon. Mathematics will land men on heaven.”
Source: Mind and Life, Form and Content
“Religion leaves no room for human complexity.”