#religion

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

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Religions are the cradles of despotism. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ↗

— George Santayana

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. ↗

— George Santayana

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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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