Religion Quote by Peter Sloterdijk

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of…

— Culbert Olson

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress has challenged,…

— Ronald Wright

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

“Nowhere in the definition of Religion is there a mandate for religions to self-challenge or revamp their theological positions based on new enlightenment. Rather,…

— Brian Goedken

“But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers.”

— Csikszentmihaly

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

— Mary Augusta Ward

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

— David Novak

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

— Lord Acton

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger