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Religion

«It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.»
«It should be made clear that in order to live a Christian life, any Christian must be able to discriminate and hate, because that's what the bible says»
«I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness?»
«It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.»
Author: Pope John XXIII | About: Religion | Keywords: pope, the pope, wake up
«I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.»
«I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.»
Author: Felix Frankfurter (Jurist) | About: Judaism, Pride, Religion | Keywords: fitting, heritage, Jew
«I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking»
«I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent»
«I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey»
«It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck | About: Religion | Keywords: had better