Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.” — Carl Jung 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
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . . — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
“Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commune with like-minded… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have my own spiritual thing, but am not part of an organized religion. I think religion is very special and individual… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
“Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve… — Sean Kamali Copy Share Image
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt 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
“The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Let us first and foremost look into what Christ himself said on the matter — for those of us who are of… — M.W. Sphero Copy Share Image
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
