Atheism Quote by James Madison

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

— Hugo Black

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

— Thomas Jefferson

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

— Robert Bork

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values.…

— Michael Medved

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion…

— Natalie Angier

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

— Matthew Henry

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world,…

— John Tillotson

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

— Jacob Neusner

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

— Rick Warren