Fairy tale Quote by Peter B. Lockhart

“Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.”

— Bryant McGill

“The whole history of religion is the history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.”

— Alan W. Watts

“History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up…

— Robert Heinlein

“Every Christian who studies history can only grieve over the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God by people who refuse…

— Berit Kjos

“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the…

— Tom Robbins

“In the history of mankind, more human beings were killed in the name of religion than for any reason,”

— Bobby Akart

“History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars,…

— Montesquieu

“The wars of religion that followed the Protestant Reformation caused many people to view religion as nothing more than an ideology with the potential…

— Jeremiah Vallery

“the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in…

— Karen Armstrong

“Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.”

— Jahanshah Safari

“The oft-cited charge that belief in God and religion has led to more wars and evil than anything else is as untrue as it…

— Dennis Prager