“Using your wealth to purchase other people’s loyalty is a game as old as humanity itself. Rich men use their wealth to… — Gregory F. Fegel Copy Share Image
Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel… — Georg Solti 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
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
“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. — Dave Davies 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
“...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
“But I should note, for all my resistance to organized religion, that I don't believe Charlie could have quit drinking without it.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that… — Danny Masterson 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
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. — John D. MacDonald 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
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress… — Brian D. McLaren 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
“Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“...people don't think in churches. [ Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion. ]” — Robert Noyce Copy Share Image
The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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