Change Quote by Marianne Williamson

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

— Gary Hamel

Organized religion is the unholy mutation of faith

— Boaz Zippor

Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or…

— Susan Jacoby

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion…

— Marianne Williamson

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for…

— Saul Alinsky

Religion is no longer a connection point for most people. Our communities were built on coming together in physical locations once a week or…

— Miguel McKelvey

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have…

— Michel de Certeau

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

— Michel De Certeau

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people…

— Daniel Bell

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't…

— Jeanette Winterson

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality,…

— Erich Fromm

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick…

— Jesse Ventura