Argument Quote by William Murchison

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues…

— Wendy Kaminer

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people…

— Indya Moore

“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really…

— Edward O. Wilson

Religion, throughout the years, has become a very oppressive thing that doesn't allow people to get to know the God it was created to…

— Kirk Franklin

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

— Jon Stewart

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

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics…

— Sam Harris

As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It…

— Robert Bork

“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after religion’s influence…

— Alan Jeskin

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

— Hugo Black

With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr