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Against Religion Quotes (page 3)

What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. Gilbert K. Chesterton
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. Arundhati Roy
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres. Albert Einstein
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is... Arthur Conan Doyle
Stephen King quote: "It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are..."
It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns. Stephen King
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. Edgar Allan Poe
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. E. O. Wilson
Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs. Alcee Hastings
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. Bernard de Mandeville
Naguib Mahfouz quote: "The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate..."
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. Naguib Mahfouz
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. Georg Solti
Pope Shenouda III quote: "The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept..."
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. Pope Shenouda III
Salman Rushdie quote: "If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I..."
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. Salman Rushdie
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. John Desmond Bernal

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