Illusion of Religion Quotes

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only you shall be able to visualize the true core of religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges – become the messenger of equality – become the prophet of goodness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Violence cannot be religion. And true religion cannot be violent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Love is holiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Religion without reason is like making love without love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“The term spirit might have evolved in a mystical fashion, but in today’s civilized and thinking society, it refers to simply your inner self. Spirit is the self, and the self is the soul. Hence, a spiritual person is a person who is more interested in realizing his or her inner self, than giving in to any conformity of the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Real religion can only be realized by lion-hearts who have the guts to go against all predominant prejudices of the society, not by sheep of books.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Dehypnotize the world, my friend, and you shall witness the dawn of real religion – the religion, not of books, but of people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ drives the psyche of mentally unstable individuals in the path of chaos, which actually is presented to them by the fundamentalists as the path of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world needs the kind of religion that humanizes the society, not the kind that dehumanizes it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism