“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals)… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Alice in Lapland. Any undue interest in or physical contact with children will set off alarms. If you do not want your… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did… — Neale Donald Walsch 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
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Angels is a tough word, because it is so involved with organized religion and everything else. I do know, absolutely, from my… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to maintain faith when life gives you such pain and organized religion seems to have been co-opted by the cruel… — J.D. Trafford Copy Share Image
I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's… — Matt Skiba 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
“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… — Sonya Renee Taylor Copy Share Image
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. — Camille Paglia 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
“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in… — Hunter Parrish Copy Share Image
I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do… — Vera Farmiga 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
By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“I’m beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the True Self--and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)--will always live in the backwaters of any empire… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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