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~ In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. ~

William Robertson Smith

~ The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers. ~

Dave Barry

~ When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. ~

John Woolman

~ “Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.” ~

Strider1957 Emma Goldman

~ Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. ~

Daniel Morgan

~ The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. ~

Diderot, Denis

~ Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured, and yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is regarded as a sign of hostility to religion. ~

Whipple, Edwin Percy

~ Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind. ~

Voltaire

~ A good test of a man's religion is its vitality. ~

Unknown

~ No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. ~

Mark Twain

~ All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~

Edgar Allan Poe

~ If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam., ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ f there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness. ~

Voltaire

~ Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion. ~

Sam Ervin

~ 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. ~

G. I. Gurdjieff

~ The Great Spirit does right. He knows what is best for his children. We are satisfied. Brother, we do not wish to destroy your religion, or to take it from you. We only want to enjoy our own. ~

Chief Red Jacket

~ America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape. ~

William Blum

~ Work rivals religion for the #1 spot in mind control techniques. ~

Roach

~ In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. ~

Robert Runcie

~ A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. ~

Henry A. Wallace

~ A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ~

Aristotle

~ Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. ~

Edmund Burke

~ This new concept ought to be elaborated alongside the religions, in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it. We ought to promote this concept with the help of scientists. It could lead us to what we are looking for. ~

Dalai Lama

~ There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. ~

Woodrow Wilson

~ Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. ~

Cyril Cusack

~ 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

~ In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other. ~

Mark Twain

~ A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. ~

Edgar Watson Howe

~ For most Jewish who take the course, they come with a childlike view or understanding of what this religion is and they are surprised by the sophistication of the teaching. ~

Rabbi Geoff Dennis

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