Antitheism Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?”

— Stephen Richards

“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most…

— Douglas Preston

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— Sigmund Freud

“Religion is an individual experience of a universal mind and universal experience of an individual mind.”

— Ajmal Siddiqi

“Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We…

— Jordan Beem

“religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.”

— Frank Schaeffer

“religion arises from culture; spirituality arises from biology.”

— George E. Vaillant

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.”

— Marcel Proust

“There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil,…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.”

— Karen Armstrong

“Religion retards intellectual growth, represses individual thought, is the adversary of science, the restraint against invention and the stalwart of what would otherwise advance…

— Al Stefanelli