QUOTES

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Without cultural sanction, most or all of... religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
JOHN F. SCHUMAKER

The Religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognises it as such.
SIGMUND FRUED

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCAL

All thinking men are atheists.
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY

Theology - an effort to explain the unnknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. MENCKEN

And of all Plagues with which Mankind is cursed, Ecclesiastick Tyranny's the worst.
DANIEL DEFOE

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in ... ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order religious or otherwise which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU