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I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. -- Will Smith
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why? -- Kerry Thornley
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. -- Kerry Thornley
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
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. -- Jesse Ventura
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms, -- Bruce Willis
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people -- Jesse Ventura
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. -- Jon Stewart
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -- Isaac Asimov
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. -- Lenny Bruce
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. -- Edgar Allan Poe
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. -- Denis Diderot
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. -- George Carlin
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. -- Emile Zola
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. -- Thomas Jefferson
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve. -- Hugh Hefner
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. -- Sarah McLachlan
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. -- Christopher Hitchens
We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live. -- Francis Chan
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. -- Richard Dawkins
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. -- John Lennon
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. -- Joseph Campbell
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme. -- Bernard Katz
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. -- Jewel
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. -- Dave Davies
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. -- Richard Rohr
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. -- Jesse Ventura
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. -- Neale Donald Walsch
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. -- Pete Townshend
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. -- E. O. Wilson
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
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. -- Mary Douglas
Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure, thus giving an appearance of inclusiveness. -- Lisa Randall
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. -- Alice Walker
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines. -- Gary Hamel
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
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. -- Jonathan Davis
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion. -- Madonna Ciccone
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life. -- Jane Seymour
Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids. -- Rhea Perlman
I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk. -- Jake Roberts
I'm not really a fan of organized religion. -- Luke Grimes
I have some problems with conventional organized religion. -- J. K. Rowling
Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is. -- Mario Cuomo
So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying. -- John Shelby Spong
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian. -- Laurens van der Post
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with. -- David Cross
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . . -- Annie Laurie Gaylor
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. -- Diane Ackerman
The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether. -- Andrew Solomon
Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else. -- Ted Nugent
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. -- Elbert Hubbard
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents... -- Arthur C. Clarke
When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion. -- Sally Quinn
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. -- Rodger Kamenetz
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. -- Rajneesh
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. -- Joyce Cary
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body. -- Joyce Cary
Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality. -- Lawrence Kushner
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion. -- John Henrik Clarke
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. -- John D. MacDonald
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. -- Erica Jong
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith. -- Max Lucado
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. -- Andrew Solomon
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people. -- Stephen King
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake. -- Jon Stewart
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants -- Dave Beard
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. -- Mary Douglas
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. -- Camille Paglia
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. -- Charles Eastman
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. -- Charles Eastman
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims. -- Ian Mckellen
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
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 say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. -- Bertrand Russell
The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. -- James Randi
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
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion. -- Richard Dawkins
I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run. -- Ice Cube
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality. -- Jeanette Winterson
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from Childhood. -- Grace Slick
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
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action. -- Robert Shea
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need. -- Anne McCaffrey
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country. -- James Welch
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
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
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
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. -- Corita Kent
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit. -- Alice Walker
...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries. -- Richard Rohr
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

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