Against religion Quote by Langdon Brown Gilkey

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask…

— Denis Diderot

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.”

— Sherman A. Jackson

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

— Jeremy Taylor

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is…

— PZ Myers

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political…

— Brendan Myers

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

— Diane Ackerman

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.

— Kenneth Copeland

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

— Thomas Hobbes

That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable,…

— Richard Carrier