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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions an...

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To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o...

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and p...

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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political po...

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Robert NoyceThe Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on th...

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Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

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One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by relig...

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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took hi...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity...

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How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than w...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrum...

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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us u...

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I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with...

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I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could....

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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single...

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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...

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The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere,...

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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...

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Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error...

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Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

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Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

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