“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
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“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
“It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.”
“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”
“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.”
“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
“Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.”
“Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.”
“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
“I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.”
“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.”
“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.”
“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.”
“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
“It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.”
“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.”
“These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.”
“India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.”
“The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.”