#religion

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#best #heaven #hell #let us #out

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#fortune #good #good fortune #man #religions

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#error #expressed #great #instinctive #people

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#figured #four #going #holy #i

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#children #extent #fellow #his #must

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#ceases #country #day #free #religion

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#am #became #christianity #empire #execution

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#knees #religion

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. ↗

— Helen Keller

#amount #devil #die #energy #ennui

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#christian #east #establishing #ethical #ethics