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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.

  • The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

    Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America
  • 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.

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

    Source: andrewsolomon.com
  • Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

  • In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

    Atheist   Fear   Reality  
    "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.
  • the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

    Religious   May   Threat  
    Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.106, Vintage
  • 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.

    Source: www.ourtimepress.com
  • 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.

    Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.
  • Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

    "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
  • When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

    "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.
  • My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

    Views   People   Tools  
    Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.
  • I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

    Source: www.ourtimepress.com
  • 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.

  • One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

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

    Gay   Feminism   Activism  
    Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage
  • I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

  • When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

    Sunday   Religion   Cash  
    Interview with Joe Hyams in Playboy, February 1963.
  • Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.

    Religious   War   Believe  
  • Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

    Death   Hope   Atheist  
    "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....
  • There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

    Odds   Media   Like Love  
  • I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

  • How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

    Prophet   Subtle   Bigger  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books
  • I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

    Funny   Witty   Humorous  
  • 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.

    Source: chomsky.info
  • Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

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

    Source: content.time.com
  • 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 (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • 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.

    Enough   Break   Skeptic  
    "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.
  • Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

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