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The church should just stay out of people's pants.
— Alex Sanchez
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
— Jon Stewart
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.
— Stephen King
Theology is ignorance with wings.
— Sam Harris
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
— Richard Francis Burton
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
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
— Kerry Thornley
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
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
— Elbert Hubbard
...people don't think in churches.
[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.] — Robert Noyce
[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.] — Robert Noyce
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
— Woody Allen
I have some problems with conventional organized religion.
— J.K. Rowling
Nothing in Christianity is original.
— Dan Brown
Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.
— Dan Santos
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
— Bernard Katz
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
— Edmond De Goncourt
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
— Neil Young
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
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
— George Bernard Shaw
In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.
— Elizabeth Alexander
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
— Carl Sagan
God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.
— Wm. Paul Young
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
— Seneca.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
— Neale Donald Walsch
One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
— C. G. Jung
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
— Joyce Cary
So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.
— John Shelby Spong
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
— Richard Dawkins
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
— Charles Eastman
God save us from religion.
— David Eddings
Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!
— Fred Van Lente
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
— Will Smith
I'm not really a fan of organized religion.
— Luke Grimes
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
The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
— Andrew Solomon
I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
— Hannah Harrington
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
— Camille Paglia
The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.
— Max Lucado
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
— John D. MacDonald
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
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights ...
— Annie Laurie Gaylor
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
— Andrew Solomon
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
— Rajneesh
Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.
— Lawrence Kushner
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
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.
— William T. Vollmann
I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title "organized religion." What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?
— Roland Merullo
Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...
— Dante Alighieri
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
— Rodger Kamenetz
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
— Dave Davies
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
— Mary Douglas
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
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
— Erica Jong
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
— Diane Ackerman
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
— Laurens Van Der Post
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
— Pete Townshend
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.
— George Carlin
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.
— Anne Rice
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents ...
— Arthur C. Clarke
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
— Richard Rohr
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
— Denis Diderot