RELIGION QUOTES XIV

quotations about religion

Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. It is straightforward -- and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

MARTIN AMIS

"The Voice of the Lonely Crowd", The Guardian, June 1, 2002

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.

VOLTAIRE

Voltaire: Selections

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Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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