Abandonment Quote by Simon LeVay

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages…

— Charles Bradlaugh

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

— Bertrand Russell

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Religion is the archrival of intimate spirituality…Religion, a tiresome system of manmade dos and don’ts, woulds and shoulds – impotent to change human lives…

— Douglas Banister

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not…

— Julian Huxley

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for…

— Alain de Botton

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

— Penn Jillette

When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs…

— Lisa Randall

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

— Robert Frost

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.

— David Lowery