Contention Quote by Carl Sagan

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

— Aga Khan IV

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of…

— George Santayana

“Nowhere in the definition of Religion is there a mandate for religions to self-challenge or revamp their theological positions based on new enlightenment. Rather,…

— Brian Goedken

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is…

— PZ Myers

“The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions…

— Anonymous

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics…

— Sam Harris

“But if there is a significant weakness in the arguments of many modern atheists and secularists, it is that their case is presented as…

— John Pickard

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

— Karl Marx

Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the name of…

— Edgar Mitchell

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

— Sigmund Freud

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

— Carl Sagan