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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these…
— Adolf Hitler
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are…
— Tim LaHaye
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We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive…
— Karl Popper
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Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable…
— Mahathir Mohamad
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[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with…
— John Ashcroft
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No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been…
— Nadine Strossen
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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few…
— Moustapha Akkad
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I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.
— Richard Jeni
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I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals,…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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