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A Few Random Quotes

• “Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?” -- Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• “Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.” -- Marianne Williamson
  
  
• “Religion can be defined as a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of people struggles with the ultimate problems of human life.” -- Milton Yinger
  
  
• “Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.” -- Noam Chomsky
  
  
• “Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.” -- Rebecca West
  
  
• “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” -- Richard Francis Burton
  
  
• “One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.” -- Robert Heinlein
  
  
• “Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.” -- Sigmund Freud
  
  
• “I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.” -- Susan B. Anthony
  
  
• “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” -- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
  
  

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