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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

— Aleister Crowley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Religious people are happier.

— Deborah Norville

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

— Karen Maitland

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

— H. L. Mencken

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

— Rodney Stark

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

— Josh Billings

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

— Dante Alighieri

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

— Mary Douglas

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

— Thomas Merton

✗Opposing Perspectives

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.

— Jonathan Sacks