Religion Purpose Quotes

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order ...

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.

Religion is for man and not man for religion

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?