There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
~George Bernard Shaw
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~Jonathan Swift
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
~Steven Weinberg
A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all.
~Edwin Lewis
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Jonathan Swift
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
~ Voltaire
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~Soren Kierkegaard
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
~H.L. Mencken
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
~ Dalai Lama
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
~Jonathon Miller
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
~ George Bernard Shaw
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
~ Anais Nin
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain
~ Mark Twain
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
~Larry Flynt
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
~ Dave Barry
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
~Blaise Pascal
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
~George Bernard Shaw
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.
~ H. L. Mencken
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
~Seneca
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~Mohandas Gandhi
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
~Flavius Josephus
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
~Dave Barry
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
~Mark Twain
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people
~John Wycliffe
A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.
~Latin Proverb
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
~Seneca
All men have need of the gods.
~Homer
Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.
~Oscar Wilde
I considered atheism, but there weren’t enough holidays.
~Author Unknown
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
~Albert Einstein
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they dwell in peace.
~Voltaire
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
~Friedrich Neitzsche
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
~ Mark Twain
Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be religious people.
~Doris Egan
I believe in God; I just don’t trust anyone who works for him.
~Author unknown
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
~Voltaire
The church is the great lost and found department.
~Robert Short
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
~Robert H. Schuller
To be at all is to be religious more or less.
~Samuel Butler
Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more.
~John Bledsoe.
All men have need of the gods.
~Homer
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one’s enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
~Nikolai Bukharin
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
~Napoleon.
People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
~Tom Wolfe.
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
~Lord Byron
All religions must be tolerated… for… every man must get to heaven his own way. ~Frederick the Great
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
~Bill Waterson
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman
Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
~Buddha.
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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