Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
Copy Quote View & ShareNo religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Copy Quote View & ShareReligion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
Copy Quote View & ShareI call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Copy Quote View & ShareMore and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Copy Quote View & ShareReligion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Copy Quote View & ShareA little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Copy Quote View & ShareReligion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Copy Quote View & ShareI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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