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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely,

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. – Abraham Lincoln, quoted in What Great Men Think Of Religion by Ira Cardiff

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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. РDiderot, Pens̩es philosophiques, 1746

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The purpose of all major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. – Vaclav Klaus

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

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