We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
-David Mitchell
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
-David Mitchell
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Hatred and contempt, be it for a thing or a person, has no place in the 'Hindu'
religion... Whereas these so-called Hindu saints are building number of ashrams
by inculcating the unnecessary feeling of 'sinfulness' in you. What kind of Hindu
are you and what kind of saints are these?
-Deep Trivedi
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
-Richard Dawkins
"The God Delusion"
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Religion is just mind control.
-George Carlin
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT!'
-Margaret Cho
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
-Issac Asimov