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Post by Tamrin on Apr 22, 2010 10:11:51 GMT 10
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed
Immanuel Kant (Born this day 1724)
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Post by Tamrin on May 5, 2010 8:38:51 GMT 10
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
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 (Born this day 1818)
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Post by Tamrin on May 18, 2010 6:57:18 GMT 10
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
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion
Bertrand Russell (Born this day 1872)
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere
George Meredith (Died this day 1909)
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Post by Tamrin on May 20, 2010 6:57:16 GMT 10
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy
Bro. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette (Died this day 1834)
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Post by Tamrin on May 22, 2010 9:37:04 GMT 10
I'm religiously opposed to religion
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise
Toleration is the best religion
Bro. Victor Hugo (Died this day 1885
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Post by Tamrin on May 29, 2010 9:13:14 GMT 10
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried
G.K. Chesterton (Born this day 1874)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 8, 2010 7:29:24 GMT 10
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by lawThomas Paine(Died this day 1809) That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 16, 2010 6:35:08 GMT 10
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being
James Joyce (His “Bloomsday” this day 1904)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 18, 2010 7:08:27 GMT 10
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God
Susan B Anthony (Fined this day 1873, for trying to vote for President)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 19, 2010 9:19:14 GMT 10
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction
Blaise Pascal (Born this day 1623)
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings
Salman Rushdie (Born this day 1947)
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