Accepted Quote by Paul Johnson

The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor…

— Rodney Stark

“There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.”

— Karen Armstrong

“For centuries, most of the devout had looked past vast amounts of scientific data and rational logic in defense of their faith.”

— Dan Brown

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist…

— Richard Dawkins

“The vast stores of knowledge that represent the evolving wisdom borne from the scientific mind is proof positive that religion is no longer relevant…

— Al Stefanelli

“The fact that religious faith has left its mark on every aspect of our civilization is not an argument in its favor, nor can…

— Sam Harris

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with…

— Werner Heisenberg

“The view implicit in my education was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that opinion was…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

“Religion retards intellectual growth, represses individual thought, is the adversary of science, the restraint against invention and the stalwart of what would otherwise advance…

— Al Stefanelli