Attributes Quote by Benjamin Rush

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

“it is a messy process for a culture to abandon its deities. Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age…

— Dan Brown

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

— Josh Lanyon

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

— Auguste Comte

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct…

— Robert Vaughn

“In no way can what the pupil learns, whether from books or industrial training, or from contact with forces and representatives of civilization, be…

— Thomas Lawrence Riggs

“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions…

— Frank Herbert

“All religions have core beliefs that confound these innate expectations about the world, such as faith in physically powerful but essentially bodiless deities. These…

— Scott Atran

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

— David Novak

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism,…

— Richard Rohr

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of…

— Alain de Botton