Religion Quotes
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.
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I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
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A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
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We all are humans first. There is no religion that defines us.
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Grow up. Grow up. Time to grow up. You’re here now. We’re working on physics here, not religion. Drop the mysticism and grow up.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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Slowly but surely I became resigned to the fact that, for some alternative medicine zealots, no amount of explanation would ever suffice. To them, alternative medicine seemed to have mutated into a religion, a cult whose central creed must be defended at all costs against the infidel.
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That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
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Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
