“Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.”
— Walter Koenig
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“When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.”
— Daniel Bell
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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”
— Pope John Paul II
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“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”
— John Woolman
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“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
— William Blake
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“Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.”
— Frederick II
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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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