“No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
— Noah Webster
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“As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.”
— Christopher Dawson
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“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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“Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.”
— Al Goldstein
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“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
— Sigmund Freud
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“The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.”
— Lionel Blue
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“Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.”
— Orson Welles
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“Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.”
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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“In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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