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Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.