Become Quote by Michael Shellenberger

Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion is like a fame that doesnt speak but lighten the environment

— Ritu Ghatourey

There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with…

— Noam Chomsky

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

— Jon Stewart

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

— Jonathan Sacks

It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust,…

— Karen Armstrong

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.

— Steven Weinberg

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

— Ziggy Marley

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout…

— Rodney Stark

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

— Richard Rorty

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

— Dave Brat

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

— Kirk Douglas