“I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title “organized religion.” What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?” — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why? — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Louis Duprée described this contradiction in his work on Afghanistan: “Islam, in essence, is not a backward, anti-progressive, anti-modern religion, although many… — Jenny Nordberg Copy Share Image
“Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the… — Wendy Priesnitz Copy Share Image
“Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own… — Prem Prakash Copy Share Image
“While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that… — Hyde Copy Share Image
I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion.… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
My Faith, is unwavering. I believe in God, just not in any organized Religion, for surely, history has shown us, anything Humans… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“My honors thesis project was my first interactive exhibit, in which two facing chairs were activated by a motion sensor when the… — Wafaa Bilal Copy Share Image
“Is that what God does? He helps? Tell me, why didn't God help my innocent friend who died for no reason while… — Elliot Alderson Copy Share Image
“I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Let us first and foremost look into what Christ himself said on the matter — for those of us who are of… — M.W. Sphero Copy Share Image
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . . — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.” — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
