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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
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 religions we call false were once true. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious. -- Ibn Warraq
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. -- Richard Dawkins
When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. -- Charles Caleb Colton

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