Fantasy Quote by Ross Douthat

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

— Daniel Dennett

A mere society form of Atheism.

— Charles Bradlaugh

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

— Emile Durkheim

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

— Octavia E. Butler

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

I think religious individualism doesn't fulfill impulses toward community and solidarity and it doesn't necessarily work for people when things go really bad.

— Ross Douthat

Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions,…

— Huston Smith

I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal…

— John Shelby Spong

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion…

— Christopher Dawson

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

— Mario Bunge

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a…

— D. Patrick Miller

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be…

— B. R. Ambedkar