Organized Religion Quotes - Page 6

• My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

  Christopher Durang

  Letting Go, Emotion, Problem

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• You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Religion, Quests

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• ... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

  Margaret Halsey

  Two, Giving, Likes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I don't think much of it. In fact, in my view that's exactly the right analogy: notions like Marxism and Freudianism belong to the history of organized religion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Views, Analogies

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.227, The New Press

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• For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, People, Trying

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

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• I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

  Uwem Akpan

  Religious, Writing, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Confusion, Feelings

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• I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Catholic, Outsiders

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• My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

  Stephen King

  Views, People, Tools

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

  Vera Farmiga

  Frustration, Men, Made

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• I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

  Julia Child

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Religious, Threatening, Priests

  Source: content.time.com

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• Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

  Malachy McCourt

  Compassion, Crime, Facets

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

  Malachy McCourt

  Stuff, Way, Looks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

  David Cross

  Get Away, Organized, Concerned

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

  Taryn Manning

  Spiritual, Grateful, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Differences, People, Survival

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• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Feminism, Activism

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

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• Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

  Saul Alinsky

  Civilization, People, Religion

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• Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hands, Atheism, Slavery

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

  Diane Ackerman

  Religious, May, Threat

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.106, Vintage

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• I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

  "Christopher Hitchens On Mother Theresa". Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 16, Number 4, www.webpages.uidaho.edu.

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• I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Dad, School

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• I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.

  Amber Heard

  Enough, Break, Skeptic

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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