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~ All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ~

Tom C. Clark

~ The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. ~

John Paul Stevens

~ Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ~

Georgia Harkness

~ Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. ~

Epictetus

~ Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible! ~

Wilma Scott Heide

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

Jonathan Swift

~ 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. ~

Karl Popper

~ More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. ~

Charles Eastman

~ Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. ~

Morris Raphael Cohen

~ Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. ~

Voltaire

~ To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death. ~

Gore Vidal

~ Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. ~

Harriet Martineau

~ In our religion, there is a special place in the hereafter for those who participate in jihad. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life. ~

Paul Tillich

~ The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ~

Arthur C. Clarke

~ There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. ~

Eugene Ionesco

~ We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values. ~

Kofi Atta Annan

~ 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

~ All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice-that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity. ~

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

~ I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ ~

Dalai Lama

~ An agreeable opinion is accepted as true: this is the proof by pleasure (or, as the church says, the proof by strength), that all religions are so proud of, whereas they ought to be ashamed ~

Unknown

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

Susan Sontag

~ Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. ~

Mark Twain

~ Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain ~

Mark Twain

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