Religion – The Irony

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. - John Henrik Clarke

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbour as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. - Mark Twain

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. - Aldous Huxley

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. - Blaise Pascal

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but – live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton

Good people can do good and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil – that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! - George Carlin

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