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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

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

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.

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

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

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.

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

"Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion."

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.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.