Top 10 quotes about religion

But how do you know that, RobertMJ? Can you hear John Lennon and George Carlin singing from where you are? Or is that just some of your hogwash leaking out of your brain?

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal

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AND IT WAS ATHEIST WHO BROUGHT ON THE CRAP TODAY WITH THEIR INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN AND IT WAS AESTHETICS WHO MADE MARXISM AND COMMUNISM WHICH CREATED MONSTERS LIKE STALIN AND LENNON WHO KILLED 10'S OF MILLIONS WHOSE EMPIRE THE SOVIET UNION FELL AFTER 75 YEARS AND IT WAS ATHEIST WHO MADE THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS PARTY WHO IS HARVESTING ORGANS FROM LIVING PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN A GOD
HEY ATHEISTS YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY EVERY NATION YOU MADE IS A FAILURE

BUT FUNNY HOW IF ONE LOOKS ATE JESUS EVEN WITH JUST A WAY OF LIFE SEEMS TO LEAD TO A HIGHLY EVOLVED CIVILIZATION LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOUR SELF ?/ THE GOLDEN RULE DIDN'T COME FROM ANTI THEISTS ATHEISTS. THE BEAUTY OF AMERICA IS YOU CAN BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT BUT DON'T MISQUOTE JEFFERSON BY CUTTING OFF HIS COMPLETE STATEMENT.
AS FAR AS GEORGE CARLIN GOES AND LENNON YEP THEY ARE BOTH SINGING A VERY LOUD DIFFERENT TUNE RIGHT NOW

Religion is a comfort for many a belief in something supernatural greater and bigger and better than the hellishness of people's lives religion by it's very nature is open to be taken over by wicked abusive people and they do on a regular basis .All religions are just a massive cult . There is no God and people just suspend their rational mind in order to believe, to fit in be part of a religion a culture an identity it's easier to fit in be part of the cult than to stand alone and think for yourself .Religion is for weak minded people who choose the easier path or so they hope . No suprise priests always refer to their congregation as their flock as in flock of sheep ( I was raised Catholic til I came to my senses around age 12 yrs old ) . If one sheep runs left they'll all follow won't bother looking will just go Willy nilly dash around in panic that's what a religious flock of people does too .The problem is church leaders have power and are not afraid to use misuse it . .the thing i find most telling is how a beleiver will get so angry and attack an atheist which I believe is because they know as an atheist you're right but they desperately hang on to the security of being part of the herd . Personally I've nothing against believers I just kinda pity them really for being so dumb and so weak ..

does any one on here know and understand what religion is? so far I would say a big fat no.
I guess people on here say you can jump up and come down 10 different ways. or 100
I guess these people like to change the law of physics.
people I read so far have no idea. yet they love to say something, why?

far as I know their is two sides for things, not 100

up and down, night and day etc.

Shouldn't the titel be "Top ten atheist quotes about religon"?

I think people will be be "evil" or "bad" whatever. Just they use the general consensus view as an excuse to hide behind.

So Wars of Royal Succession, Nepoleanic Wars, World War I, World War II, Stalin, Korean War, Vietnam War - I fail to see the religious connection. Also I think I could find many other examples, and a good historian even more.

Sure the Crusades and the 30 Years War were religious, but staying with a western christain perspective "the colonial wars" - they were really about empire building. However during this time period "the age of discovery" - missionaries were really active, peacefully spreading their beliefs. Furthermore, thousands of them, and those they had converted were executed. Should we say these colonial conquests and missonary campaigns were the same thing? Or two things happening at the same time?

What do you think about the Japanese Shogun Period? The Portuguese and the Dutch tried to establish trade, but at the same time the Japanese saw Christianity as a destabilising force, and so killed thousands of Christians. Were these Christains part of an attempt to spread "the Good News" like the early Christains during the Roman period and Dark Ages or part of a Colonial plan?

Religion is not a corrupt political institution of power, though such an institution may claim it is.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by those without knowledge of things without parallel.

-- Ambrose Bierce