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Quote by Salman Rushdie
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. – Salman Rushdie

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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. – Herbert Read

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My theory is if you have a religion, its a good one. Because some people dont have any at all. – Tom T. Hall

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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. – Muhammad Iqbal

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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. – George Santayana, Reason in Religion

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