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
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
“...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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who… — Anonymous 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
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us,… — Stephen King 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
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'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
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 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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the… — Anne Rice 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
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
“Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city… — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
