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“religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.”

Religion Blood Cold

Book:Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses

Source: Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses

“Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?”

Men War Whole Religion Belief Nations Blood Europe Filled Torture Ashes Bloody Persecution Infant Men Women Monstrous Assassination

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.”

Knows Religion Forever Blood Brother Pals Blood Brothers

Author:Dan Barker

“Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.”

Men World Mind Soul Religion Blood Tears Kingdoms Gloom Degrade Humiliate

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.”

Has Beens Stills Christian Religion Father Too Much Blood Land Middle Cry Holy Flow Jew East Chosen Middle East Veins Inheritance Abraham Grasping Holy Land Patriarch

Book:We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

Source: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”

Wells Littles War Bigs Religion Politics Social History Blood Economic Tiny All Time Bloody Economic Systems

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.”

Way Feels Religion Women Blood Mouths Bones

Book:Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works

Source: Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works

“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”

“For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.”

Men Years Has Beens Earth Religion Three Causes Blood Thousand Formulas Shed Thousand Years

Author:Felix Adler

“Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.”

World Faces Religion Religious Darkness Blood Sky Red Dawn Colour Sunset Wizards Restoration Wrecks

Book:Life and destiny

Source: Life and destiny