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“Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.”

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Book:The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)

Source: The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)

“It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.”

“Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.”

“Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.”

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Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

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

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.”

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Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.”

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Book:Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

Source: Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

“Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.”

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Author:Lily Montagu

“Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.”

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Author:Rami M. Shapiro

“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.”

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.”

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Author:Kerry Thornley

“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.”

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Book:DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government

Source: DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order