Jonathan Swift - Religion Quotes

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.

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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

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Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!

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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

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The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

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