Organized Religion Quotes - Page 7

• Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Spiritual, Passing On, Political

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Scary, Forever

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Meaning Of Life, Way

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, Healthy, Danger

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, War

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• Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.

  Lily Montagu

  Prayer, Women, Soul

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• Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Taken, Silly, Law

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• Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

  Frank Zappa

  Organized, Mislead

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa". "Oui" Interview with Dave Rothman, April 1979.

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• Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.

  Kathleen Turner

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Thinking, Warfare

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mind, Atheism, Viruses

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.

  P. C. Cast

  Men, Religion, Guilt

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Atheism, Trying

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• Theology is ignorance with wings.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Ignorance, Wings

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• Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Forever, Earth

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• Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Religious, Government, Organization

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• To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

  Richard Dawkins

  Biblical, Editors, Evil

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Moving

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• As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

  Dave Beard

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?

  Bruce Willis

  Believe, Volcanoes, Weather

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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• Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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