Religious

(67 votes)   When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Gerard De Nerval
1808-1855, French Novelist, Poet

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(66 votes)   Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.

William Temple

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(65 votes)   The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

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(64 votes)   Religions are all alike -- founded on fables and mythologies

Thomas Jefferson

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(63 votes)   Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

P. J. O'Rourke

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(63 votes)   I must put my certainty to the side in the face of God's divine potential.

Xplicit Man
comedian philosopher

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(62 votes)   A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(62 votes)   Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

P. J. O'Rourke

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(62 votes)   Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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(62 votes)   Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

Ludwig Feuerbach
1804-1872, German Philosopher

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(62 votes)   Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

William Cowper
1731-1800, British Poet

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(61 votes)   Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.

W. E. Orchard

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(60 votes)   A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(58 votes)   I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you? I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake.

Richard Milhouse Nixon

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(58 votes)   There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne Lafollette
1893-1983, American Feminist, Writer

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