Accepting Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Any religion is an illusion to others”

— Oscar Wilde

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

— Sigmund Freud

My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great…

— Ichabod Spencer

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an…

— Sigmund Freud

“Illusion is the best synonym for the word religion!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

— Carl Rogers

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all…

— Ram Dass

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Religion implies revelation.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making…

— Stephen K. Hayes

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

— H. L. Mencken