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~ Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually happens ~ ~ It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so ~ ~ More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. ~ ~ The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~ ~ Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own ~ ~ My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ ~ Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. ~ ~ Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet ~ ~ Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized. ~ ~ Religion is just mind control ~ ~ Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism ~ ~ Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. ~ ~ Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope ~ ~ I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinkin ~ ~ That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies, and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror ~ ~ On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. ~ ~ We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell ~ ~ What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs ~ ~ Where knowledge ends, religion begins. ~ ~ Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ~ ~ Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from ~ ~ Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error ~ ~ Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin. ~ ~ Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. ~ ~ Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ~ ~ What has religion to do with facts? Nothing ~ ~ I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another ~ ~ Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies ~ ~ Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ~ ~ If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. ~ |
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