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Religion

«The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted»
«The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal laws»
«The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment»
«The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.»
«The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state»
«The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Religion | Keywords: fanatical
«The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future»
«The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice»
«The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act»
«The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Religion | Keywords: founded, Prophecies, testament, The New