religion quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."
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"The man of 'modern ideas', the conceited ape, is excessively dissatisfied with himself- this is perfectly certain. He suffers, and his vanity wants him only 'to suffer with his fellows.'"
150
"Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed. Its spawning ground is the wreckage of political and military defeat, as Hebrew fundamentalism arose during the Babylonian captivity, as white Christian fundamentalism appeared in the American South during Reconstruction, as the notion of the Master Race evolved in Germany following World War I."
322
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
374
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
398
"Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor."
554
"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
555
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
556
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
690
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
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