Believe Quote by Mary Douglas

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human…

— Georgia Harkness

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its…

— George Carlin

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

— Radhanath Swami

“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

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

— Will Rogers

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

— David Eller

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is…

— Criss Jami

If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about…

— Liam Cunningham

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful,…

— Mary Douglas

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

— Sam Harris