Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I… — Jane Seymour 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
I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in… — Dwight Yoakam 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
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
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith. — Max Lucado 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
One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt… — Corita Kent 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
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Organized religion: where men write the rules, women follow them, and the children pay the price.” — Brad Deep Copy Share Image
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake. — Jon Stewart 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
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
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
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically… — Richard Dawkins 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
“...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
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
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
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
