Accept Quote by Wole Soyinka

“Prosecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religious, or religions established by law.…

— Thomas Paine

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

— James Anthony Froude

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

— Tom T. Hall

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

— Sigmund Freud

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

— Thomas Jefferson

“A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts – the non-religious included – is that religious faith is especially vulnerable to offence…

— Richard Dawkins

“Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. “Why do bad things happen to good people?” we might ask—the very question…

— Tim Chaddick

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“Religious guilt causes people to deny their behavior even as they engage in it. Guilt short-circuits rational examination of behavior in favor of supernatural…

— ED.D Darrel Ray

“It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as before, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our…

— Douglas Wilson

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have…

— Baron de Montesquieu