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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”

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Author:Anatole France

“Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.”

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Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.”

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Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

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Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”

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Author:Stendhal

“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.”

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Book:DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government

Source: DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”

“The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.”

“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir