People Quote by Ernest Renan

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly…

— Steve Allen

Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.

— Karen Armstrong

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

— David Hume

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

— Andrew Sullivan

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

— Jacob Neusner

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people.…

— Booker T. Washington

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

— Fred Barnes

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

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

— George Iles

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

— Anonymous

So much wrong could religion induce.

— Lucretius