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Quotes about religion
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (Chamberlain Richard)
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. (Chamberlain Richard)
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. (Chamberlain Richard)
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. (Chamberlain Richard)
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All thinking men are atheists. (Chamberlain Richard)
One religion is as true as another. (Chamberlain Richard)
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. (Chamberlain Richard)
When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit. (Chamberlain Richard)
The only objection against the Bible is a bad life. (Chamberlain Richard)
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place. (Chamberlain Richard)
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. (Chamberlain Richard)
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. (Chamberlain Richard)
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. (Chamberlain Richard)
All religions die of one disease - that of being found out. (Chamberlain Richard)
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. (Chamberlain Richard)
If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed) (Chamberlain Richard)
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. (Chamberlain Richard)
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. (Chamberlain Richard)
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. (Chamberlain Richard)
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. (Chamberlain Richard)
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. (Chamberlain Richard)
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. (Chamberlain Richard)
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History. (Chamberlain Richard)
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! (Chamberlain Richard)
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. (Chamberlain Richard)
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