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Quotes About Religion

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
~ Mark Twain
The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian
~ Albert Mackey
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
~ Desmond Tutu
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
~ Steve McVey
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
~ Thomas Paine
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
~ R. C. Sproul
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
~ Rashid al-Ghannushi
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
~ Albert Einstein
Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt
~ Pat Condell
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
~ John Stuart Mill
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
~ Hosea Ballou
Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
~ Gautama Buddha
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
~ Thomas Paine
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
~ Noah Webster
How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.
~ Carl H. Claudy
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.
~ Rowan Atkinson
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
~ Juliana Hatfield
The religion of humanity is love.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Fear is the mother of all gods.
~ Lucretius
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
~ Raymond Queneau