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"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."

Polly Toynbee on Religion

More quotes about Religion

  • "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 on Religion

  • "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

  • "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

    Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Polly Toynbee

  • "People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."

  • "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

  • "But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

  • "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

  • "Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."

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