Confidence Quote by Rodney Stark

“Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought ever to…

— Brad S. Gregory

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

— Jonathan Sacks

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are…

— Victor Hugo

“It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now seemed more…

— Alec Ryrie

“the modern religions of secular salvation have undermined their own main assumption: that the future would be materially superior to the present. Nothing less…

— Pankaj Mishra

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which…

— Vita Sackville-West

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

— C. V. Wedgwood

“There was never a revival of religion without a revival of his opposition.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“Religion has had a free ride for too long and despite the growing murmurs of malcontents, the societal privilege afforded to faith remains a…

— Noah Lugeons

“Let me repeat: the stakes are high. We must confront one of the most massive pseudo-evidences in recent intellectual history: the belief, rampant in…

— Peter Sloterdijk