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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. -- Pope John Paul II
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When in comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion. -- George Carlin
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next? -- Adam Mansbach
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know. -- Sam Harris
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. -- Christopher Hitchens
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. -- Bill Gates
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. -- Pope Francis
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. -- P.D. Ouspensky
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! -- Thomas Carlyle
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. -- William Hazlitt
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger
There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish. -- Bruce R. McConkie
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man. -- Max Muller
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. -- Ambrose Bierce
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion? -- Samuel Richardson
When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion. -- George Carlin
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. -- Paul Dirac
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game. -- Rajneesh
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. -- John Tillotson
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. -- C. S. Lewis
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world. -- John Owen
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false! -- Blaise Pascal
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen. -- Thaddeus Stevens

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