Abortion Quote by Stephen Prothero

If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my…

— John Rawls

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

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

— Irving Kristol

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have…

— Albert Ellis

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

“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion…

— Sam Harris

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary…

— Christopher Hitchens

In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual…

— Gretchen Rubin

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

— Don Cupitt

Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to…

— Jenny Hval