The quotes on religion by famous people (sent by Jun)
Jun sent me an email with these interesting quotes. They are so smart and refined
that I decided to post them here. Hope you will also enjoy what they said.
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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want
you to share yours with them.
___ Dave Barry
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Father Michaellod was horrified to find his New Guinea native parishioners
all preferred hell to heaven. It took him some time to find out why. On the
mission picture, hell was depicted as a place of eternal fire, people by
dark-skinned beings with spearlike pitchforks. Heaven, on the other hand,
was depicted as a place of cloud and mist, among which many white people
stood, pale and menacing.
___ Tim Flannery
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love
one another.
___ Jonathan Swift
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Man is kind enough when he's not excited by religion, but once the holy
holies have got a grip on him he's capable of almost anything. When a
disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under
the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew, or Muslim.
If he's made up his mind that you need reforming, he will do it with
anything handy - an ax, eight hundred years of witch burning or, if
necessary, he'll blow you up.
___ Mark Twain
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it;
anything but live for it.
___ Charles Caleb Colton
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
___ Voltaire
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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like
about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to
man and beast, it is all sham.
____ Anna Sewell
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the
combination is locked up in the safe.
___ Peter De Vries
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of
endless strife .... Believe there is a great power silently working all
things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
___ Beatrix Potter
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Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two
pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they
ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited
intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making
champagne.
____Kurt Vonnegut
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
____Honoree de Balzac
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Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face
of the earth, let's not speak in any language; let's stop for a second, and
not move our arms so much.
____ Pablo Neruda
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