Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Religion

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
- Joseph Conrad

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
- Emerson

When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
- Stanislaw Lec

How strange it is to see with how much passion
People see things only in their own fashion!
- Moliere

Bigotry is the sacred disease.
- Heraclitus

Conformity is the ape of harmony.
- Emerson

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

Conformity, humility, acceptance – with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
- Robert Lindner

Men despise religion, they hate it, and fear it is true.
- Pascal

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
- Eric Hoffer

We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may
Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites
And private hates with our defense of Heaven.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Solemnity is the shield of idiots.
- Montesquieu

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There’s no one so transparent as the person who thinks he’s devilishly deep.
- W. Somerset Maugham

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man’s ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
- Francois Mauriac

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

- Pascal