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Quotes About Religion

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
~ Jesse Ventura
Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.
~ Jim Palmer
... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.
~ Bernadette Devlin
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
~ Josh Lanyon
Religion is born out of questions, not answers.
~ David Dark
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
~ Hervey Allen
The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.
~ Wafa Sultan
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
~ Bertrand Russell
Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.
~ Steven Barnes
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
~ Cotton Mather
All bibles are man-made.
~ Thomas A. Edison
There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
~ William Booth
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
~ Frank Herbert
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
~ Martin Buber
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
~ Thomas Paine
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
~ Isaac Newton
How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?
~ Muhammad Ali
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
~ Sigmund Freud
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.
~ Max Stirner
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
~ Timothy Keller
If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.
~ Immortal Technique