Development Quote by Carroll Quigley

“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress. The…

— Joseph Lewis

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.

— Mercedes Schlapp

“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after religion’s influence…

— Alan Jeskin

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought ever to…

— Brad S. Gregory

“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been a key…

— Paul Johnson

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

Politics And Religion Are Obsolete, The Time Has Come For Science And Spirituality

— Vinoba Bhave

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

“I plan to make the case that we need to move beyond religion if we want to continue the kind of remarkable intellectual and…

— Alan Jeskin

“A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan…

— James A. Haught

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are…

— Nancy Gibbs