Conclusion Quote by Mary McCarthy

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

— Jodi Picoult

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

— Bill Maher

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

— Garry Marshall

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

— Sam Harris

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

— Pat Buckley

Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the world. Bad religion teaches…

— Harold J Duarte-Bernhardt

I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it.

— Joe Mullally

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

— Paul Bloom

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

— Thomas Paine

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

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

— Emanuel Swedenborg