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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
All religions have been made by men.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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