Abhijit Naskar, Illusion Of Religion: A Treatise On Religious Fundamentalism Quotes

Religion without reason is like making love without love.

Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.

If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.

A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.

Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress.

Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.

The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.

Let your conscience be your scripture and your actions be your religion. Let the humans be your church and compassion be your worship. Let love be your gospel and acceptance be your revelation.

Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.

Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges – become the messenger of equality – become the prophet of goodness.

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.

Blind faith is not real religion my friend.

Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion.

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.