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“Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers”

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Book:My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo

Source: My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo

“Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

“The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.”

Men Said Two Helping Hands Religion Names Can Do Church Teaching Please Luck Chiefs Almighty Indifferent Hands Of God

Book:The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan

“... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”

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Author:Frances Wright

“... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.”

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Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”

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Book:Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Source: Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce