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Tag Name "Religions" (713)

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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell
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Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
Bertrand Russell
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Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.
Carl Sagan
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Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith.
Anton Szandor LaVey
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
Daniel Dennett
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana
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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
A.C. Grayling
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Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.
James Redfield
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
Karen Armstrong
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Religions don't own compassion it is a human virtue.
Karen Armstrong
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
Thomas Hobbes
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard
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Religions die slowly.
Franz Marc
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Religions have approved themselves they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
William James
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis de Sade
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Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
Richard Rohr
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Religions of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices and ceremonies, to ensure that they stayed happy and kept the city safe.
Larry Hurtado
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Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times
Muhammad Ali
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Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
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Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.
Carl Sagan
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Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods.
Carl Sagan
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
Ambrose Bierce
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