Believed Quote by Penn Jillette

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

— E. O. Wilson

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed…

— John Henrik Clarke

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

— Arthur Helps

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

— Bertrand Russell

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

— E. O. Wilson

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they…

— Frans de Waal

Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and…

— Mehdi Hasan

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and…

— Emile Durkheim

There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a…

— Jonathan Trigell

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that…

— Jonathan Haidt

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

— Mario Cuomo

Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to…

— Michelle Monaghan