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“Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.”

People May Has Beens Religion Suffering Causes Religious Needed Behavior Neighbor Violent Reform God Love Destructive Mandates

Author:Charles Kimball

“I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.”

Religious Behavior Function Ceremony Identical

Book:The Fountains of Paradise

Source: The Fountains of Paradise

“Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.”

Mean Religious Powerful Attitude Source Behavior Urges Clothings Chaotic Nudity

Author:Patricia Garfield

“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source: The Lost World

“If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?”

Ifs Needs Law Passion Names Social Born Religious Behavior Greed Hunger Obvious Envy Lust Narcissism Secular Meanness Anti Social

Book:A Dark Time in America

Source: A Dark Time in America

“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”

Humans Religious Situation Moral Environment Behavior Training Genes Human Behavior External Environment

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.”

Christian Religious Behavior Posts Motive Suspects Christian Faith Anti Christian

Author:Josh McDowell

“Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable because of their internalized norms of righteous or correct behavior. Religious belief in right and wrong is a vital influence to produce such voluntary compliance by a large number of our citizens.”

Together Law Belief Religious Numbers Influence Produce Citizens Behavior Our Society Righteous Enforcement Norm Large Numbers Religious Belief Compliance

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.”

“We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury or a religious leader who teaches moral law and values can be charged with the errant behavior of a parishioner or congregant who may violate their moral teachings. That is on the individual.”

May Law Values Individual Religious Leader Moral Teach Teaching Behavior Responsible Contrary Rome Pope Moral Law Religious Leaders Canterbury

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.”

People Country America Law Culture Religious Known Fashion Personality Degrees Behavior Majors Splits Revival Hysterical Covert Split Personality

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.”

Ideas Christian Religious Goodness Behavior Filled Prison Good Behavior

Author:Andy Rooney

“To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.”

Men World May Made Choices Religious Succeed Degrees Behavior Favors Profane

Book:The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Source: The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.”

Kind Sometimes States Religion Religious Emotion Personality Behavior Favors Manifestation Creeds Severe Neurosis Psychosis Borderline Craziest Hate Religion

Author:Albert Ellis