“I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
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“But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.”
“I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.”
“The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.”
“So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.”
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.”
“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.”
“Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.”
“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
“True character arises from a deeper well than religion.”
“Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.”
“I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.”
“The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.”
“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.”
“If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.”
“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”
“Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.”
“He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.”
“For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.”
“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
“There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.”
“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”
“Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.”