Quotes about Religion

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"Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."- H. L. Mencken

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."- James Kern Feibleman

"The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?"- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."- Karl Marx

"Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes."- George Carlin

"Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers."- Rabia Basri

"Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based."- Ambrose Bierce

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."- Anne Lamott

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."- Steven Weinberg

"A cult is a religion with no political power."- Tom Wolfe

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."- George Bernard Shaw

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."- Blaise Pascal

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."- C. S. Lewis

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."- Dave Barry

"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."- Jonathan Swift

"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One's religion is whatever he is most interested in."- James M. Barrie

"I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds."- Bertrand Russell

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