“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.”

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“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.”

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“There are three subjects I`ve learned never to discuss at nudist camps: politics, religion, and tape measures.”

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“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”

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“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 in silence or with new words.”

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“I just merrily went on my way doing what I liked and let the confusion lie where Jesus flung it.”

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“The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.”

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“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 an ethical and educational system.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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 'submission.' The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.”

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“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

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“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.”

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“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

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