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“Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.”

Men Reason Religious Animal Atheism Constitution Instinct

Author:Edmund Burke

“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”

Long Feelings Political Religious Enemy Movement Lessons Instinct Rely Motive Attempting Agitation Obstruction

Book:Practical Agitation

Source: Practical Agitation

“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.”

Humans Mean Facts Individual Social Religious Animal Moral Cases Psychology Pressure Fundamentals Instinct Etc Internals Organisms Heredity

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American creed, without distinction of sect or party. Liberty, both civil and religious, is an American instinct. Such liberty is impossible on the basis of a union of church and state, where the one of necessity restricts or controls the other. It requires a friendly separation, where each power is entirely independent in its own sphere.”

“Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.”

May Soul Religious Conscience Instinct Faculty Peculiar

Book:Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

“A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.”

Men Faces Joy Religion Religious Aspect Weak Instinct Conventional Deprived

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.”

Law Religion Religious Instinct Replaced Philanthropy

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.”

Has Beens Sex Religious Teaching Instinct

Author:Dora Russell

“Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.”

Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

“It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.”

Mind Ideas Order Religious Instinct Denial Closets Affinity Helm Bashers

Author:Julian Sanchez