Community Quote by Mary Douglas

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

— Mary Douglas

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

— Sam Harris

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…

— Philip Pullman

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

— Ryan Reynolds

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor…

— Jonathan Sacks

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived,…

— C. S. Lewis

“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion…

— Sam Harris

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

— Theodore Schroeder

Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

— Garry Marshall