Believer Quote by Nancy Pearcey

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

— Lawrence Wright

Belief in a religion is the perfect way to control groups of people.

— Peter Molyneux

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its…

— Penn Jillette

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

— Mark Twain

Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.

— Krista Tippett

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

— David Novak

“Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)”

— Jonathan Haidt

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

— Marianne Williamson

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it…

— John Henry Newman

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people…

— Daniel Bell

It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

— John Shelby Spong

“All religions are inextricably bound to the social, spiritual, and cultural milieux from which they arose and in which they developed. It is not…

— Reza Aslan