RELIGION QUOTES IV

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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis ... mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Future of an Illusion

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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


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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Religion being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity. The quarrels, and divisions about religion, were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted rather in rites and ceremonies, than in any constant belief. For you may imagine, what kind of faith theirs was, when the chief doctors, and fathers of their church, were the poets. But the true God hath this attribute, that he is a jealous God; and therefore, his worship and religion, will endure no mixture, nor partner. We shall therefore speak a few words, concerning the unity of the church; what are the fruits thereof; what the bounds; and what the means.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Unity in Religion", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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No man is to make Religion for himself; but to receive it from God; and the teachers of the Church are not to make Religion for their hearers, but to show it only, as received from God.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Man must & will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan & will erect the synagogue of Satan.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Jerusalem

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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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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Future of an Illusion

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Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Timothy Leary's Last Trip

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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


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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Labyrinths

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The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

EUGENE IONESCO

Rhinoceros

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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

MAHATMA GANDHI

Hind Swaraj

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Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so--pardon the pun--so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.

STEPHEN KING

Revival


Religion is the artifice, you know, the building, after God has left it sometimes, like Elvis has left the building. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

BONO

interview, Larry King Weekend, December 1, 2002

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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