Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. -
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. -
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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