Becoming Quote by Mercedes Schlapp

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

— Carroll Quigley

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our…

— Pat Robertson

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric…

— Stephen L. Carter

The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values.…

— Michael Medved

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

— Huston Smith

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious…

— Richard Dawkins

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill