RELIGION QUOTES VI

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The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

GORE VIDAL

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

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Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

JOHN ADAMS

letter to Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1817

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How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.

JOHN NEWTON

Olney Hymns

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It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

The New Revelations: A Conversation with God

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The difference between Christianity and Islam is that some people think a guy walked on water and other people think a horse can fly.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

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The evangelists' success points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause. They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

BARACK OBAMA

The Audacity of Hope

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I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right?

WILLIAM GIBSON

No Maps for These Territories

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If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion

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It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

C. W. LEADBEATER

The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals

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Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

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

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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence ... and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

IRVIN D. YALOM

The Schopenhauer Cure

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Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

HAN SOLO

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed; to persecute all other sects, and to plunder their own.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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For the man who does not want God of course will not find him; and the man who is busy searching for something else will not find God; and certainly the man who has coined the atrophy of faculty into a philosophy that the Eternal and the Invisible cannot be seen or known, cannot see or know.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God

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The certainty of divine love and divine justice for the individual soul is that better part which no priest or potentate can take away and no revolution can defeat. And just to the extent that this is forgotten and dependence is placed on forms and ceremonies, on ecclesiastical authority, on governmental decrees, on arbitrary instruction--on anything outside of the soul itself--to exactly that extent will religion, or what passes for it, become worthless, if not corrupt.

ROSSITER JOHNSON

"The Whispering Gallery"


Americans like to believe in miracles, they like to believe in magic and when they consume religion it's not on a philosophical level, it's on a miraculous level. Jesus can do things for you. It's about goods.

FRANK ZAPPA

Spin Magazine, July 1991


Religion is as contradictory as reality, which distinguishes it from ideologies that must strive to be free from contradiction.

MARTIN MOSEBACH

"Of Course Religion is First and Foremost a Duty", First Things, January 20, 2016


What is living religion? It is the human soul growing towards the Ideal, throwing out tendrils here and there, and ever ascending from bud to bloom; ever enriched by the fact of its perfectability, operating incessantly on the trammels an establishment may lace around it, straining them and bursting them, ever seeking its proper expansion, and ever therefore impatient of restraint.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Future of an Illusion

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