"When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest."
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"It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind."
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"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."
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"Religion is the opiate of the people."
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"Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way."
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"Religion is a defense against the experience of God."
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"God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining."
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"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
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"One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism."
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"The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions."
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"Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion."
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"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
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"School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance."
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"Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile."
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"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."
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"Do not dare not to dare."
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"From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail."
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"Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence."
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"How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!"
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"The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."
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