Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.” — Dan Santos Copy Share Image
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“The great irony for a man in my position is how little use I have for organized religion. I am essentially a… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing,… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Cellar Christians!" Foyle exclaimed. He and Robin peered through the window. Thirty worshipers of assorted faiths were celebrating the New Year with… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“This is often the primary difference between him and so many of those of us who follow him. When we encounter the… — John Pavlovitz Copy Share Image
“The fact is that life is like the river: endlessly moving on, ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its banks, penetrating every crevice… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.” — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the… — S H Miller Copy Share Image
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