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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. – Walter Jon Williams

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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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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. – John Desmond Bernal

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I wont take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. – Carl Sandburg

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw

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