Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SenecaTags: corruption organized-religion useful common-people
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoléon BonaparteTags: religion atheism organized-religion
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
Carl SaganTags: science god religion epistemology cosmology organized-religion awe
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
Richard Francis BurtonTags: religion organized-religion there-is-no-god-but-man
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich NietzscheTags: paradox religion atheism organized-religion
Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely.
Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.
Tags: religion organized-religion
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny BruceTags: god religion jesus organized-religion
I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.
Tags: politics religion organized-religion
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: power religion danger law sect organized-religion separation-of-church-and-state cult
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Isaac AsimovTags: religion atheism bible organized-religion
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