- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion Quotes
Belief looked at from every angle.
Some of these come from personal family history with church and faith, others take a harder look at how religion gets used or misused. For quotes on trust and conviction, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
- Burner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who are right with God and right with the world. I don't see that evidence very often.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020