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Quotes About Religion

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.
~ Voltaire
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
~ Voltaire
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
~ John Adams
The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.
~ Joseph Henry
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
~ A.C. Grayling
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
~ Ann Coulter
Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
~ Alfred Russel Wallace
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
~ Willa Cather
Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.
~ John Cotton
Religion is the opiate of the people.
~ Karl Marx
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Strange is the man who practices his religion.
~ Mark Twain
Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.
~ Fethullah Gulen
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
~ Mark Twain
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
~ James Kern Feibleman
Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.
~ Raimon Panikkar
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
~ Shirin Ebadi
I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
~ Malcolm X
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow