The task of organized religion is not to prove that God…

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

— Richard Rohr

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both…

— George Carlin

Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process…

— Lily Montagu

“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

— Rajneesh

“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I’m beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten path of…

— Jim Palmer

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd…

— Malachy McCourt

The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I…

— Yann Martel

My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.

— William T. Vollmann

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that…

— Joseph Campbell

“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult organizations are…

— Zeena Schreck

“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”

— Arthur C. Clarke