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> [Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/auguste-comte/religion-is-an-illusion-of-childhood-outgrown-under-proper-education/)

[Auguste Comte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/auguste-comte/)

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> [“Real Religion is the one in which there is no illusion (bhranti).”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/real-religion-is-the-one-in-which-there-is-no-illusion-bhranti/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

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> [“Any religion is an illusion to others”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/any-religion-is-an-illusion-to-others/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/religion-is-an-illusion-and-every-illusion-has-the-inevitable-destiny/)

[Mehmet Murat Ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/i-began-to-feel-that-if-religion-was-either-an-illusion-or-a/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

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> [Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-lanyon/like-true-philosophers-i-ve-come-to-believe-that-religion-is-an/)

[Josh Lanyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-lanyon/)

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> [Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/religion-is-an-illusion-and-it-derives-its-strength-from-the-fact/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

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> [Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/keep-clear-of-psychiatrists-unless-you-know-that-they-are-also/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/if-god-does-not-exist-and-if-religion-is-an-illusion-that-the/)

[Irving Kristol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-kristol/)

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> [All religions have been created to explain things we know nothing about. For the Greeks, natural phenomena such as lightning could not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-a-camp/all-religions-have-been-created-to-explain-things-we-know-nothing/)

[Ryan A Camp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-a-camp/)

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