“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image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
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
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“I have my issues with organized religion and cafeteria-style religion, picking and choosing certain dogmas that apply or seem ethical while ignoring… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today,… — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.” — Dan Santos 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
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion. — John Henrik Clarke 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
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
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
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
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
“Organized religion is horseshit. Spirituality -- the spirituality that I've come to know and experience -- has nothing to do with religion.… — Dan Fante 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
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world… — James Welch Copy Share Image
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
