Direct Quote by Rodger Kamenetz

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

— Diane Ackerman

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

— Jack Pritchard

“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways,…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes…

— Albert Ellis

“Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.”

— Alan McCluskey

For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they…

— Michael Medved

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

— Karl Marx

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

— Huston Smith

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

— Thomas Browne

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

— Carl Jung

Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs…

— Jose Antonio Carrillo

“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”

— Carl Jung