For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art
My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud!
If one person has an imaginary friend they're crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion
I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.
Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, but religious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.
Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
Santosh Patel: Spectacle. Don't let the stories and pretty lights fool you, boys. Religion is darkness.
Edith: You think that's all religion is about... selling hope and survival?
