#religion

I think there's a difference between God and religion. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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Religion is induced insanity. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#insanity #religion

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I could never take the idea of religion very seriously. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. ↗

— Barack Obama

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What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. ↗

— Will Oldham

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Wars have always started over religion. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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