Clear Quote by Thomas Howard

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

— John Adams

“That so many of us are still dying on account of ancient myths is as bewildering as it is horrible and our own attachment…

— Sam Harris

“primitive religions are based entirely on fear”

— Albert Einstein

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral…

— Guenter Lewy

“We humans have a natural tendency to search for solutions and irrational explanations as soon as we are confronted with fear. Since the dawn…

— Manuel Lempereur

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

— N. T. Wright

“Religion exists to explain the unexplained, to calm our fear of dying, but all it does is breed more fear and hatred.”

— Javier Robayo

“fear,confess,business,limited knowledge makes religion”

— er.teji

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

— George Eliot