“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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“Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.”
— David Miliband
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“It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony.”
— Laurence Housman
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“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
— Thomas Paine
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“Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.”
— Cyril Cusack
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“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.”
— Paulo Coelho
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“If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.”
— Origen
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“Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.”
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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“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.”
— Joan D. Vinge
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“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”
— Christopher Hitchens
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“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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