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#31

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: absurd, organized-religion, paradox, religion

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#32

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion

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#33

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen

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#34

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
― George Carlin

tags: evangelism, freedom-of-religion, religion, tolerance

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#35

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
― Voltaire

tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life

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#36

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh

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#37

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: compassion, enemies, friends, friendship, religion

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#38

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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#39

“Music is my higher power”
― Oliver James

tags: music, religion

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#40

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, religion

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#41

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: christian-behavior, christmas, religion

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#42

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

tags: islam, religion, spirituality

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#43

“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: gods, humour, religion, stupidity

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#44

“I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
― George Carlin

tags: organized-religion, politics, religion

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#45

“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: christianity, humor, religion

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#46

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

tags: humor, paradox, religion

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#47

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, god, religion

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#48

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
― Albert Camus

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#49

“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
― Emmett F. Fields

tags: atheism, misattributed-to-carl-sagan, religion

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#50

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#51

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

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#52

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness."

Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe?

"Pulvis et umbra sumus," said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: religion, young-adults-fantasy

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#53

“I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
― George Carlin

tags: organized-religion, religion

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#54

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
― George Carlin

tags: absurdity, belief, credulity, doubt, evidence, gullibility, humor, indoctrination, invisible, reason, skepticism

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#55

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!”
― T D Jakes

tags: christian, god, love, marriage, men, religion, spirituality, women

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#56

“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

tags: george-w-bush, god, religion

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#57

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

tags: atheism, god, religion

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#58

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

tags: anti-christian, atheism, bible, religion

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#59

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: irreligion, religion

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#60

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

tags: religion

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