Childhood Quote by Richard Dawkins

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

— Auguste Comte

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

— Adam Phillips

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

— Sigmund Freud

“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions…

— Frank Herbert

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

— Josh Lanyon

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

— Jodi Picoult

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

— Julian Baggini

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is a universal security blanket for a lot of people, especially children. It gives them a sense of security, albeit, I am relatively…

— Rock Cowles

Religion is caught, not taught.

— William Ralph Inge