A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl SaganStichwörter: science life religion organized-religion zealotry
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John LennonStichwörter: god religion spirituality organized-religion
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...
Stichwörter: god religion mankind organized-religion
...legitimate powers of government reach actions only,
Thomas JeffersonStichwörter: religion government civil-rights organized-religion separation-of-church-and-state
Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen."
(Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521)
Stichwörter: truth belief religion conscience freedom-of-thought christian organized-religion steadfastness freedom-of-religion reformation
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoeStichwörter: religion organized-religion irreligion
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
Émile ZolaStichwörter: civilization religion atheism organized-religion
God save us from religion.
David EddingsStichwörter: inspirational organized-religion savior
Theology is ignorance with wings.
Sam HarrisStichwörter: reason religion atheism organized-religion
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: morality religion organized-religion
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