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| If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold |
| Rudyard Kipling |
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| If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us |
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| If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always the e |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain? (Psalms 11:1) |
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| In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities |
| Thomas Paine |
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| It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st |
| William Cowper |
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| It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
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| It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of God |
| Tom Stoppard |
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| It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us |
| Thomas Paine |
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| It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished |
| Albert Einstein |
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