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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Politics
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke1729–1797A Vindication of Natural Society (1756), Preface
- Clever Jabs
There’s some are fou o’ love divine;
There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
Robert Burns1759–1796The Holy Fair, st. 27 (1786)
- Comedy
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13.
- Anti-Religion
No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.
George W. Bushborn 1946Freedom at War With Fear (2001)
- Race
It is essential to this nation’s future that we remember that the freedom to worship who we want, and how we want, or not worship at all, is a core belief of our founding.
George W. Bushborn 1946Remarks at the SMU 100th Spring Commencement (May 2015)
- Freedom
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Lord Byron1788–1824Don Juan (1819–1824), Canto the First (1 of 2)In context
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.
John Calvin1509–1564Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551), Page 78.
- Christianity
- Life & Death
It is easy to see how superstition, with its false glosses, mocks God, while it tries to please him.
John Calvin1509–1564Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 54
- God
We should not insist on absolute perfection of the gospel in our fellow Christians, however we may strive for it ourselves.
John Calvin1509–1564Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551), Page 21.
- Christianity
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it’s me!
George Carlin1937–2008“Interview With Jesus”
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!
George Carlin1937–2008You Are All Diseased (1999)
- Anti-Religion
- Comedy
His religion at best is an anxious wish, — like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Burns
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. I, ch. 10.