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~ 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. ~
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