Altered Quote by Daniel Dennett

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

— Diane Ackerman

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is…

— Rodney Stark

I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction…

— Lee Strobel

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once…

— Christopher Hitchens

Organized religion is the unholy mutation of faith

— Boaz Zippor

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more…

— Stephen Prothero

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it…

— John Henry Newman

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people…

— Daniel Bell

“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new…

— Luther Burbank

I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.

— William T. Vollmann

“Governments, churches, and educational institutes, once the keepers of order and social enlightenment, are now scrambling to remain relevant as our collective consciousness and…

— George Takei