The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Religion is just mind control.
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
Religion is what you do with your solitude.
Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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