“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.”
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“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”
“It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.”
“Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.”
“To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.”
“If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.”
“But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.”
“What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.”
“Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.”
“More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.”
“I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.”
“Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.”
“I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.”
“The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.”
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
“Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.”
“More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.”
“Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.”
“What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.”
“Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?”
“Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”
“I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.”
“No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.”
“You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.”