Belief Quote by Steven Pinker

“interchangeably. There are numerous biblical texts expressing Yahweh’s hatred and condemnation of all people who could be generically defined as witches: “diviners,” “pythons,” “conjurers,”…

— Monica Sjöö

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation…

— Mikhail Bakunin

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

— Anonymous

No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder. Anyone who does is not a Witch, but a psychopath.

— Starhawk

“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?' 'Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.' 'What's the catch?' 'You get hunted…

— Ben Aaronovitch

People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is…

— Vivianne Crowley

It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet,…

— Camille Flammarion

Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons,…

— Tanya Luhrmann

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with…

— Richard Price

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the…

— John Quincy Adams

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton