Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. --Ambrose Bierce
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. --Mikhail Bakunin
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. --Eric Hoffer
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. --Alexis de Tocqueville
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. --Oscar Wilde
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