“We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.”
— Francis Wright
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“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”
— Voltaire
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“In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.”
— Simon Greenleaf
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“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”
— B. R. Ambedkar
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“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
— Muhammad Iqbal
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“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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“I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.”
— Oriana Fallaci
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“Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.”
— Bodhidharma
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“I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.”
— Peter Jennings
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“To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.”
— Philip Schaff
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