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"I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Dalai Lama once said that ‘My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.’ This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect jewish lives." »Albert Einstein
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"Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"God is religion; religion is God! There is no need ever for holy books, for holy rules or for so called holy envoys! God is religion; religion is God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
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"If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear." »Rolland W. Schloerb
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"Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers in his hands!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." »Thomas Jefferson
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"I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether." »Neil Postman
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"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity." »Unknown
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"Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement." »Federico Fellini
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"All national institutions of churches, whether jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"
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"All national institutions of churches, whether jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it." »Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
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"The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion." »Kahlil Gibran
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"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Leading the jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level." »Shimon Peres
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"Here is a great body of our jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens." »Woodrow Wilson
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"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." »Martin Niemller
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"If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame! Leave it! If a religion is peaceful and innocent, you can never find violence in its history! No good faith carries sword!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the jewish people, for ever and ever." »Benjamin Netanyahu
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"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes." »Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
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"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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""Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace." »Austin Farrar
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"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." »Albert Einstein
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