{"quotes":[{"text":"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["adharma","dharma","immoral","immorality","intention","irreligion","religion","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":3996,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.","author":"Sidney Hook","tags":["atheism","irreligion","philosophy-religion"],"id":18744,"author_id":"Sidney+Hook"},{"text":"One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing the workings of the world is no longer thought to be in conflict with faith in God. I would like to argue against this trend, in favor of a more old-fashioned point of view that is still more characteristic of most scientists, who tend to disbelieve in any religious component to the workings of the universe.","author":"Sean Carroll","tags":["academia","irreligion","irreligious","knowledge","science","science-and-religion","superstition","understanding","universe"],"id":34174,"author_id":"Sean+Carroll"},{"text":"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["irreligion","religion"],"id":217563,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["atheist","infallibility","irreligion","scripture"],"id":227738,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["irreligion","religion"],"id":262135,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...Same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...","author":"George Carlin","tags":["atheism","atheist","irreligion","religion"],"id":290850,"author_id":"George+Carlin"},{"text":"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["irreligion","reasoning","religion","superstition","truth","understanding"],"id":294685,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate.","author":"George Carlin","tags":["humor","irreligion","worship"],"id":329991,"author_id":"George+Carlin"},{"text":"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["irreligion","organized-religion","religion"],"id":380163,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}