Organized Religion Quotes - Page 4

• I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did not coincide, did not match up, with my interior reality. And as they were teaching me about that God I was thinking: Who are they talking about? This was not how I experienced God. I gradually began to move away from the God of organized religion.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Teaching, Reality

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• I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs - I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

  Al Jaffee

  Christian, Mean, Hatred

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• I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

  Luke Grimes

  Fans, Organized

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

  Andrew Solomon

  Believe, Ornaments, Aesthetics

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very primitive culture. So, I think we're moving further and further away from that kind of organization of humanity and the same I would say with religion. I think that organized religions, with the exception of Islam, are really falling by the wayside. People are starting to understand that the religious potential is within and that it's an individual pursuit.

  James Wasserman

  Religious, Moving, Fall

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

  Debbie Harry

  Buddhism, Discipline, Kind

  Source: ew.com

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• In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.

  Roger Scruton

  Religious, Art, Redemption

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• Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

  Laurens van der Post

  Christian, Political, Organized

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• Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

  Ted Nugent

  War, Battle, Organized

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• I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

  Hunter Parrish

  Thinking, Texas, Belts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Community, Democracy, Liberty

  "Does Religious Liberty Equal Freedom to Discriminate?" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

  A. N. Wilson

  Formal, Worthy, Organized

  A. N. Wilson (1991). “Against religion”, Vintage

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• I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join it, support it, oppose it, accept its doctrines or reject them. There are many kinds of organized religion. People associate themselves with some of them, or not, for all sorts of reasons, maybe belief in some of their doctrines.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Mean, Organization

  Source: chomsky.info

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• By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

  Eric Alterman

  Powerful, Military, America

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• When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

  Sally Quinn

  Just Saying, Organized

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Focus, Experts

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.

  Erich Fromm

  Christian, Mean, Special

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as "two or three gathered in my name" is not still the best way.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Names, Two

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

  John Shelby Spong

  Opinion, Ends, Organized

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Practice, Two

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hypocrite, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Church, Denominations

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Believe, Ideas, Light

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• I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.

  Emily Raboteau

  Country, Perspective, Activist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

  Justin Broadrick

  Religious, Dogma, Form

  Source: pitchfork.com

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