Religion Quotes (page 4)

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• healing
• religions
• heal

Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal. Jim Wallis

• masse
• religions
• mass

Religion is the opiate of the masses. Karl Marx

• thinking
• mind
• mindfulness

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind. George Carlin

• time
• smoking
• sky

Religion has actually convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky, and he has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these things he will send you to a place full of fire, and smoke, and burn and torture forever and ever 'till the end of time.... but he LOVES you. And he needs money. George Carlin

• death
• life
• angel

Religion called? Angels beckoned? God commanded? life rolled together like a scroll? death's gates opening showed eternity beyond. Charlotte Bronte

• rich
• keeps
• riches

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte

• humanity
• history
• religions

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. William James

• people
• unity
• evening

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should. Deepak Chopra

• manly
• mans
• religions

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. Dan Brown

• education
• childhood
• educate

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. Auguste Comte

• spiritual
• hell
• who

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there. Bonnie Raitt

• vote
• moving
• party

Religion... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever... If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. If somebody thinks taxes should go up or down you are free to have an argument about it. But on the other hand if somebody says 'I must [not] move a light switch on a Saturday', you say, 'I respect that'... Yet when you look at it... Douglas Adams

• evil
• roots
• root

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything. Richard Dawkins

• powerful
• life
• grateful

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us. Dan Brown

• childhood
• teach
• teaches

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood. Richard Dawkins