My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte 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 not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with. — David Cross Copy Share Image
So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Organized religion lies and tells us that the bridge between ape and man is that of a savior who will do the… — VD Copy Share Image
“Unlike the uneducated Christian followers from centuries ago, the typical Christian today has a particularly high level of suspicion of organized religion,… — Scott S. Haraburda Copy Share Image
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That… — Anonymous 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
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins 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
Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
“I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But… — Lorna Landvik 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
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice… — Yann Martel 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
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the… — Robin Morgan 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
“Many religious fundamentalists around the world would like to see the establishment of theocracies — states where religion and government are closely… — John Lee Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“I am often asked what will replace organized religion. The answer, I believe, is nothing and everything. Nothing need replace its ludicrous… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Naskar Constitution of GenAI (Sonnet) At times I'm hard on AI, at times I'm lenient, I have just one law on AI,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder 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 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
“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 legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image