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A religion is a set of stories, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to an ultimate power or reality. It may be expressed through prayer, ritual, meditation, music and art, among other things. It may focus on specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality (the cosmos, and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws, ethics, and a particular lifestyle.... full article at wikipedia

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The Passion of the Christ	Feb 25, 2004
The Ten Commandments	Oct 5, 1956
Oh, God!	Oct 7, 1977
The Root of All Evil?	Jan 2006
The Golden Compass	Dec 7, 2007
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The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins
Quantum Theology
When Bad Things Happen to Good People	Harold Kushner
Foundations of Christianity	Karl Kautsky
Breaking the Spell	Daniel Dennett
When Religion Becomes Evil
Christianity And Culture	T. S. Eliot
Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality	Bob Larson
From Slogans to Mantras
The End of Faith	Sam Harris
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.	Carl Sagan	Pale Blue Dot
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.	Barack Obama
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.	Alan Turing
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.	Clive Staples Lewis
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.	Joseph de Maistre
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.	Thomas Paine
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.	Brigham Young
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.	Karl Kraus
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.	Northrop Frye
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