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The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. ↗

— Sam Harris

#philosophy #religion #truth #religion

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind. ↗

— George Carlin

#mind #religion #thinking #religion

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#christianity #ethics #religion #religion

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#death

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#religion #religion

A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it. ↗

— Swami Bhaskarananda

#religion #spirituality #religion

The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#common-sense #religion #religion

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#politics #religion #religion

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly. ↗

— Robert W. Cox

#economics #god #monopoly #morality #religion