“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.”
— H. P. Lovecraft
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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
— Joseph Joubert
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“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.”
— Arthur Wellesley
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“Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.”
— Tim Bishop
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“In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.”
— Hillary Clinton
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“For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.”
— Albert Ellis
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“Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.”
— Kirstie Alley
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“In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.”
— Jane Smiley
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“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.”
— Margaret Atwood
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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
— Edmund Burke
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