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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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The Bible is an antique Volume—
Written by faded men
At the suggestion of Holy Spectres—
Subjects—Bethlehem—
Eden—the ancient Homestead—
Satan—the Brigadier—
Judas—the Great Defaulter—
David—the Troubador—
Sin—a distinguished Precipice
Others must resist—
Boys that "believe" are very lonesome—
Other Boys are "lost"—
Had but the Tale a warbling Teller—
All the Boys would come—
Orpheus' Sermon captivated—
It did not condemn—
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As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.
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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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The common dogma is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a
scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the
major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defense against the dangerous new
knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a
rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently
violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will
decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
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Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
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.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to
give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The
criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make
the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not
human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest
cannon. 1854
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that
generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty,
for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with
the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people
happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
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Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out
to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
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If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody
by circumstance.
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