Crime Quote by Richard Carrier

“Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil…

— George Washington

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is…

— PZ Myers

Only RELIGION is capable of inspiring people to be too hypersensitive to tolerate a word against their ideologies and misplaced beliefs, but insensitive enough…

— Steve Fowler

“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.”

— Stifyn Emrys

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and…

— Karen Armstrong

“Religion exists to explain the unexplained, to calm our fear of dying, but all it does is breed more fear and hatred.”

— Javier Robayo

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

— Tom T. Hall

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at…

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

“The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

— Georgia Harkness

“the religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.”

— Albert Einstein