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“Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.”

World Giving Lasts Religion Oneself Followers

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”

Knows Men World Wells May Reason Religion Belief Fashion Followers Deliberate Find Me Zeus

Book:Childhood’s End

Source: Childhood’s End

“Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.”

Thinking Seems Religion Lord Kindness Cruelty Unhappiness Followers Ardent Loving Kindness

Book:The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

“A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.”

Religion Numbers Lips Followers

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.”

Ifs Life Trying Young Religion Consequence Practicals Backgrounds Conformity Followers Artificial Quests

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Wells May Religion Universe Names Ignorance Sight Responsible Cruelty Ashamed Hiding Followers Promoting

Author:Philip Pullman