Concern Quote by Rodney Stark

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be…

— Anonymous

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

— George Bernard Shaw

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric…

— Stephen L. Carter

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues…

— Wendy Kaminer

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

— Simone Weil

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious…

— Richard Dawkins

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people…

— John C. Danforth

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

— Blaise Pascal

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

— Ernest Renan

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a…

— Eric Metaxas