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The far-from-original point I will try to make now should seem obvious: There is an unsettling similarity between the rituals of the obsessive-compulsive and the rituals of the observantly religious.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957“Circling the Blanket for God”, The Trouble with Testosterone (1997), p. 263
- Anti-Religion
Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won’t have to go to work on your birthday.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957“Sapolsky on Religion”, Human Behavioral Biology 150/250 (Spring 2002)
- Anti-Religion
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Letter to a Japanese Animal Welfare Society (1961)
- Philosophy
What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1933), Epilogue, p. 241
- Christianity
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they’re probably worshipping the same god.
Ridley Scottborn 1937Esquire interview (2012)
- God
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
Roger Scruton1944–2020Modern Culture (2000), “Culture and Cult” (p. 5)
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol’n forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act I, Scene III, spoken by RichardIn context
- Good & Evil
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Androcles and the Lion (1913), Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
- Anti-Religion
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Saint Joan (1923), Epilogue (Cauchon)
- Christianity
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #83
- Anti-Religion
- God
I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Major Barbara (1905), Act II
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. II, Preface (1898)
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of “Orthodoxy, True and False” and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #172
No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950“The Living Pictures”, The Saturday Review (6 April 1895); reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932)
Religion is a great force — the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don’t understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Getting Married (1908), Hotchkiss