Organized Religion Quotes

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

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.

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

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

I no longer represent any organized religion.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.

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.

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

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.

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It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for cent

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.]

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.