The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations of creation and behavior and religion.
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
We know too much and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion and so is our religion.
We have enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but we thought if people needed a crutch for consolation where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind tyranny in religion is the worst.
In nearly every religion I am aware of there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
As with the Christian religion the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Religion is all bunk.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the Devil in human form.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion as organized in its Churches has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.