Ancestor Quote by William James

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

— E. O. Wilson

“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,…

— daniel quinn

“I feel that all should follow whatever planetary religion they wish.... However it is an oddity when these followers regularly ignore the precepts of…

— Leland Lewis

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from…

— Robert Wright

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the…

— Phil Donahue

Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable,…

— Philip Pullman

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our…

— Robert Jeffress

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.

— Johnny Christ

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that…

— Edward O. Wilson

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of…

— Richard Dawkins

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

— Josiah Royce