Famous Quotes: Religion

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Religion is just mind control.
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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
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I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
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Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
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The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
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The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
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We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
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So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.
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