![What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.](/assets/img/quote-photos/what-has-been-the-effect-of-religious-coercion-to-make-one-half-the-world-fool.jpg)
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religious real mean
Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction Becca Fitzpatrick
religious responsibility essence
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. B. R. Ambedkar
religious prayer years
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. Bill Shuster
religious dirty alliances
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. Bhagat Singh
religious men people
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all. C. S. Lewis
religious philosophical emotional
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.
religious thinking mouths
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
religious reading reality
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.
religious insanity knows
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
hypocrites though
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! Laurence Sterne
hypocrite sincerity persons
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon
hypocrite doe existence
The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.
hypocrite political slavery
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom. Abraham Lincoln
hypocrite men epic-poems
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face. Alexandre Dumas
hypocrite practice church
If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves. Orson Scott Card
hypocrite rose grace
Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths. William Shakespeare
hypocrite government people
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. Conrad Black
hypocrite sitting biden
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.
faith-religion stories understood
Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith. Reza Aslan
faith-religion daylight witch
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. Thomas Jefferson
faith-religion office superstitions
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.