The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All religions have been made by men.
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.