“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.” PeopleMayHas BeensReligionSufferingCausesReligiousNeededBehaviorNeighborViolentReformGod LoveDestructiveMandates 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.” ReligiousBehaviorFunctionCeremonyIdentical 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.” MeanReligiousPowerfulAttitudeSourceBehaviorUrgesClothingsChaoticNudity 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.” HumansWellsMaySelfReasonFightingBeliefReligiousHuman BeingsAnimalResultsViewsAwarenessBehaviorImportanceIndependenceAssumingSpeciesGuidesKingdomsCharacteristicsDestructiveDelusionNo ReasonConformityTerritoryTraitsWarfareStubbornExtinctionSelf DestructiveConformistAnimal Kingdom Book:The Lost World 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?” IfsNeedsLawPassionNamesSocialBornReligiousBehaviorGreedHungerObviousEnvyLustNarcissismSecularMeannessAnti 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.” HumansReligiousSituationMoralEnvironmentBehaviorTrainingGenesHuman BehaviorExternal 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.” ChristianReligiousBehaviorPostsMotiveSuspectsChristian FaithAnti Christian Author:Josh McDowell