Certain Quote by George Pattison

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or…

— Stephen J. Dubner

“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,…

— daniel quinn

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

— Dave Brat

“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

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas…

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Frank Herbert

“Today there is a deep longing in our culture to reconnect to this spiritual world, for we are not whole without it. But our…

— Jeremy Nadler

“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

Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to…

— Michelle Monaghan

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion…

— David Dark

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest…

— Sam Harris