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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance...the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity
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