Teaching Religion Quotes (page 2)

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• understanding
• world
• am

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins

• wise
• men
• religion

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. Cat Stevens

• preachers
• sects
• religion

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. Francis Wright

• good
• him
• bad

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine

• religious
• children
• hand

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. Polly Toynbee

• god
• believe
• terribly

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.' Neale Donald Walsch

• understanding
• value
• know

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. Abdurrahman Wahid

• law
• earth
• lesson

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• philosophy
• knows
• how

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. Baruch Spinoza

• work
• school
• reality

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. Elton John

• personality
• self
• creator

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. Erykah Badu

• equality
• equalizer
• equals

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. B. R. Ambedkar