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Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.