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Quotes About Religion

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
~ Malcolm X
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
~ Catherine Webb
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc
~ Dennis Prager
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.
~ Michael Crichton
Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
~ Andre Gide
Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
~ David Brewster
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.
~ Katha Pollitt
I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.
~ Richard Dawkins
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
~ Cesare Pavese
I think were all a part of something. We're striving (to be) more than we are...I really don't only see religion as being for people who are perfect. They've got it all set. And I'm not like that.
~ Lino Rulli
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
~ Youssef Ziedan
We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.
~ Danny Glover
Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.
~ Ron Howard
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
~ John Tillotson
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.
~ Steve Allen
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
~ E. W. Howe
Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.
~ Garry Kasparov
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
~ John Irving
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.
~ Cyril Connolly
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
~ Martin Scorsese