Organized Religion Quotes - Page 4

• I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

  Luke Ford

  Teens, Way, Attractive

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• I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

  Jewel

  Comfort, Found, 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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• Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Kings, People, Church

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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

  Laurens van der Post

  Christian, Political, Organized

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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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• I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

  Anne Rice

  Jesus, Believe, Names

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

  J. K. Rowling

  Problem, Organized, Conventional

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• The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

  Joseph McCabe

  Religion, Records, Century

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• In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Religious, Focus

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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 think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

  Dave Davies

  Thinking, Spirituality, Problem

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• Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Rights, Enemy, Organized

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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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• 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 strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

  Andrew Solomon

  Thinking, Goal, Strengthening

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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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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