Building Quote by Sam Harris

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

— Dave Brat

“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,…

— daniel quinn

“The fact that religious faith has left its mark on every aspect of our civilization is not an argument in its favor, nor can…

— Sam Harris

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives,…

— Sigmund Freud

“the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in…

— Karen Armstrong

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

— Mary Douglas

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in…

— Geraldine Brooks