“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.”
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“Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.”
“It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.”
“Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.”
“I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.”
“I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.”
“I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.”
“One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.”
“Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.”
“The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.”
“I think there's a difference between God and religion.”
“If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.”
“And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.”
“Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.”
“To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.”
“The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”
“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.”
“I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.”
“Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.”
“All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.”
“If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.”
“Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.”
“Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.”
“With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'”