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“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”
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“I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.”
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“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”
Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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“A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'”
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“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”
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“It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.”
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“And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.”
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“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
Source : John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104
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“The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.”
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“The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.”
