Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-Thomas Paine
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-Thomas Paine
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
-Issac Asimov
I’ll wear two swords, a sword of shakti (power) and a sword of bhakti (meditation).
Hindu religion, where all gods are "kings" meaning the ones who look after the
interests of their subjects; how can that religion consider those who build palatial
ashrams from others donations, as religious?
-Deep Trivedi
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson
Other than our 'mind', what is it that we have, which we can call our own?
Everything else is gifted by nature and made usable by science. At the same
time, if you talk of joy of mind, it lies in "art". But then it is difficult to understand
that in this process, where do we feel the need for these 'so-called religions'?
-Deep Trivedi
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
-Dwight Lyman Moody
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
To die for religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna