Some thought-provoking quotes about religion...
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger (circa 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal
"People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police." - H.L. Mencken
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger (circa 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal
"People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police." - H.L. Mencken
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 Comments:
Reading "The God Delusion", by any chance?
By Anonymous, at 12:52 PM
Oh please, by this point I'm sure everyone who reads this blog knows that htl has read more than Dawkins. But anonymous is just recently aware of it, I'm guessing...
By Anonymous, at 9:58 AM
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