Believe Quote by Will Herberg

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

— Ulrich Beck

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

— Gary Bauer

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

— Edmund Burke

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions,…

— Huston Smith

If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have…

— Richard M. Weaver

“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

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man…

— Bhagat Singh

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion…

— Marianne Williamson