Atheism Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most…

— Douglas Preston

“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

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

— Lawrence Wright

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger

“It is clear to me that "religions" are the invention of man, and therefore exhibit all the strengths and weaknesses of human nature.”

— Ronald R. Cooke

“Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.”

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing…

— Sigmund Freud

“Part of the irony of religion’s role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation from different…

— Christian Smith

“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.”

— Richard Dawkins

“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.”

— Albert Einstein

“[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.”

— Edward O. Wilson

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of…

— Culbert Olson