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Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly becaus

Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. – Azar Nafisi

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Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. – Mary Garden

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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – Mary Douglas

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True religion is real living living with all ones soul, with all ones goodness and righteousness. – Albert Einstein

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