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God save us from religion.

God save us from religion.

God Religion Inspirational Organized Religion

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not a

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

Religion Science Organized Religion Willful Ignorance

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions o

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics Religion Philosophy Organized Religion Irreligion

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at scien

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.

God Religion Science Organized Religion Epistemology Awe Cosmology

Religious institutions that use government power in support

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

Thomas Jefferson

Religion Government Organized Religion Civil Rights Separation Of Church And State

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were tr

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

Religion Inspirational Organized Religion Christian Behavior

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion Atheism Paradox Organized Religion

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And thos

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

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