“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search—for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means '…”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say ‘you are a sinner,’ and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“In any case, rather like priests who have forgotten the meaning of the prayers they chant, we shall go on for quite a long time talking of books and writing books, pretending all the while not to notice that the church is empty and the parishioners have gone elsewhere to attend other gods, perhaps i…”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but…”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“It’s high time to rescue ‘intelligent design’ from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“There are three subjects I`ve learned never to discuss at nudist camps: politics, religion, and tape measures.”— Paul Lynde, goodreads.com
“Crowds at Trump rallies called for my imprisonment more times than I can count. They shouted ‘Guilty! Guilty!’ like the religious zealots in Game of Thrones shouting ‘Shame! Shame!’ while Cersei Lannister walked back to the Red Keep.”— Hillary Clinton, amazon.com
“The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com