Religions Quotes
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.
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All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
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Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
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Under Islamic Law, homosexuals - men and women alike - must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed. I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced...I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
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When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
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At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
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The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
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How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
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Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.
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All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.'
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God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.
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One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
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All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
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My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
