Quotes of the Day -- On Religion

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

--Napoleon Bonaparte

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." 

--Denis Diderot

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." 

--Dalai Lama

Finally, I had never seen this one but suddenly, it's another favorite:

"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions." 

--Jerry Falwell

Go in peace.

Have a nice day.

Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

“Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?”

―Mahatma Gandhi

Link:  List of religions and spiritual traditions

Quote of the day

"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea."  --Barbara Amiel

Link: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/peculiar_4.html#ixzz1IfdPZwsi

Quote of the day

"Worldly fools search for exotic masters, not realizing that their own mind is the master."   --Bodhidharma

Quote of the day--just to stir up trouble

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814