R Quotes
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“Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.”
Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery.”
“Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.”
Source: A History Of God
“religion states that a rib was taken from man for the woman, but for thee, my love, all my ribs are thine.”
“Religion stills a thinking mind.”
“Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.”
“Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.”
“Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays
“Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?”
“Religion takes people out of darkness into light. The biggest problem is to follow religion wrongly and only think you are right.”
“Religion taught us to return good for evil.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Religion teachers for Islam instruction are being trained now in Münster and Erlangen. This has to happen quickly. My goal is to achieve relevant results within two years.”
“Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.”
Source: Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
“Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
“Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Religion teaches you to be good and perform good deeds, charecters and norms differ from it.”
“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.”
“Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.”
Source: Finding time & other delicacies
“Religion, the common inheritance, the universal birthright of the race, must be brought free to the door of everybody,”
“religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.”
“Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.”
“Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.”
Source: How to Serve the Cow
“Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.”
“Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.”
“Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.”
Source: Harry's Fight: Harry Marsden - From Catholic Care Home Abuse To Gangster To Good Fellow
“Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.”
“Religion, too, has defenders on both halves of the political spectrum. Even writers who are unwilling to defend the literal content of religious beliefs may be fiercely defensive of religion and hostile to the idea that science and reason have anything to say about morality (most of them show little awareness that humanism even exists). Defenders of the faith insist that religion has the exclusive franchise for questions about what matters. Or that even if we sophisticated people don't need religion to be moral, the teeming masses do. Or that even if everyone would be better off without religious faith, it's pointless to talk about the place of religion in the world because religion is a part of human nature, which is why, mocking Enlightenment hopes, it is more tenacious than ever.”
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”
Source: Inhuman
“Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.”
Source: Bulfinch's Mythology
“Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.”
“Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”
“Religion utan vänskap är halt,
Vetenskap utan ansvarsskyldighet är skam.
Syn utan dygd är barnsligt,
Filosofi utan mildhet är fåfäng.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Religion verdummt die Leute, wie mein Vater sagt.”
Source: Mathilda Savitch
“Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able to accept religion it captured his heart and enslaved his mind. The supreme delusion united with the supreme host.”
Source: Ruinland Chronicles Vol.3
“Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.”
Source: Heart of the Assassin
“Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.”
“Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.”
Source: Sons and Lovers
“Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.”
“Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.”
“Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.”
Source: The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels
“Religion was no cure for dysfunction.”
“Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.”
Source: Change of Heart: A Novel
“Religion was the opium for the masses of yesterday, Politics is opium for the masses of today.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.”
“Religion wasn't a big deal in our house. I don't think it was a big deal in most Chinese households. We always had photos of ancestors, organs, and incense in bowls, but the family unit was bigger than any religion, or government for that matter. Besides education, there weren't any social issues I remember my parents getting down for.”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.”
Source: The Education Decree
“Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.”
Source: Works ...
“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.”
“Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all revolutionaries who critiqued and attempted to dismantle the corrupt societal traditions of their time. Yet their teachings, like most things in human society, have been distorted and co-opted by the confused and power-hungry patriarchal tradition. What were wonce the creation myths of ancient cultures, have become doctrines of oppression. More blood has been spilled and more people oppressed in the name of religion than for any other reason in history.”
Source: Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries