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“Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.”

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Author:Kathleen Turner

“I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

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

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Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

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Author:Uwem Akpan

“I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“I no longer represent any organized religion.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.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“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.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.”

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Author:Stephen King

“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.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs - I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.”

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Author:Al Jaffee

“I'm not really a fan of organized religion.”

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Author:Luke Grimes

“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.”

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Book:Against religion

Source: Against religion

“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.”

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Author:Eric Alterman

“I have some problems with conventional organized religion.”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“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.”

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Author:Justin Broadrick

“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.”

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Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.”

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Author:Jewel

“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.”

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Author:Yann Martel

“I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.”

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Author:Patricia Arquette

“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.”

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Author:Amber Heard

“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.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.”

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Author:Rodger Kamenetz

“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.”

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Author:Malachy McCourt

“Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.”

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Author:Malachy McCourt

“I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.”

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Author:Taryn Manning

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

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“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.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

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

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Author:Andrew Solomon

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

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Author:Andrew Solomon

“I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.”

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Author:David Cross

“When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.”

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Author:Sally Quinn

“Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as "two or three gathered in my name" is not still the best way.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“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.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.”

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Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich

“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.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.”

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Author:Emily Raboteau

“I kind of lost my sense of organized religion and became more spiritual from the experience. I would walk in the woods and to the sand dunes and the lake every day. That spoke to me more than getting up at six and the morning and saying some prayers. That had nothing to do with religion to me.”

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Author:Chuck Panozzo

“The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very primitive culture. So, I think we're moving further and further away from that kind of organization of humanity and the same I would say with religion. I think that organized religions, with the exception of Islam, are really falling by the wayside. People are starting to understand that the religious potential is within and that it's an individual pursuit.”

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Author:James Wasserman

“I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.”

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Author:Debbie Harry

“Angels is a tough word, because it is so involved with organized religion and everything else. I do know, absolutely, from my experience, there are some kind of spiritual entities - force, power, intelligence - that guide me through each and every day, as long as I'm willing to accept, recognize, and surrender to their guidance. It's always there, but there are times when I insist upon having my way.”

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Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“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.”

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

Source: Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'

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