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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be a

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. – Karen Armstrong

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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. – Karen Armstrong

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they dont want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I dont believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself. – Tina Turner

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The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. – John Shelby Spong

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One of Dawkins major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion. – Ray Comfort

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