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~ Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds ~

Susan Sontag

~ I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ~

Carl Sandburg

~ Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man ~

Swami Vivekananda

~ We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. ~

Lemuel K. Washburn

~ Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. ~

Tom Robbins

~ Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. ~

Dr. Carl Sagan

~ Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand ~

Karl Marx

~ In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ~

Jeffrey Satinover

~ Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ~

Gurdjieff

~ Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea ~

Madalyn Murray O\'Hair

~ Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable ~

Gore Vidal

~ Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. ~

David Jerold

~ If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Religion is the opium of the masses. ~

Karl Marx

~ Religion is the last refuge of human savagery ~

Alfred North Whitehead

~ By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ~

Karl Marx

~ Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. ~

Wendell Phillips

~ Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ~

Bill Gates

~ Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ~

Edmund Burke

~ In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government ~

James Madison

~ Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone ~

Karl Barth

~ There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. ~

Anna Sewell

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