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“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”

Religion Names Currents Passing Passings Hypocrisy Distortion

Book:Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani

Source: Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani

“Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.”

Way God Truth Religion Peace Creation Objects Practicals Hypocrisy Nonsense Serving Preaching Serving God Agnostic Doing Good

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”

Made Lying Religion Social Church Sin Christianity Tasks Empty Lips Lawyer Cruelty Made It Hypocrisy Sinner Avarice Cloaks Rite Misers Immunity Deference Lip Service

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.”

Wells Said Religion Half Mass Hypocrisy Monk

Author:Francois Rabelais

“There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.”

Should Religion Christianity Greater Hypocrisy Paradox Professors

Author:Laurence Sterne

“If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?”

Ifs World Should Religion Morality Advantage Hypocrisy Thrown Empires Superstitions

Author:John Adams

“I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!”

People Should Political Religion Religious Institutions Hypocrisy Political Institutions

Author:Dalai Lama