“People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.” PeopleMindEnoughMomentsFallCoursesReligiousPowerfulCommonDangerousWorshipMadnessIntelligentDressesMadMajorityDepthAffairLocalsSaneShelterPlatoLunaticGeneralitiesHegelAugustineCommon LifePowerful Mind Author:David Stove
“Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.” WayPhilosophyBeliefReligiousFireDangerousDangerPhilosophicalOne WayGuarding Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.” PeopleThinkingMindIdeasFormHumanityReligiousJusticePrinciplesSawsAliveDangerousHumilityTasteTruth IsElementsEternalHarmonyPhilosophicalConnectedOddConceptionRealisticMaximsTranscendentalLogosBrotherlyBrotherly LoveDeviateGreat Religious Author:Max Horkheimer
“Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.” WorldMindFirstsPhilosophySchoolReligiousViewsCommonOpinionClearTeachingDangerousTaxesScriptureCommon SenseParksEtcMuseumsAmendmentsExclusiveViolationFirst AmendmentWorld ViewPopular Opinion Author:Kent Hovind
“Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.” BelieveBookIdeasReasonTermReligiousAtheismDangerousAmountNo ReasonReviewsSkepticDangerous Ideas Author:Garrett Hardin
“Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.” MenIdeasCountryReligiousEffectsDangerousDiseaseMen And WomenPoliceGenderPsychologicalOur CountrySegregationWrong Ideas Author:Basmah bint Saud
“[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.” WorldReligiousAtheismDangerousPositive AtheismAdversaries Author:Steven Weinberg
“To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.” GivingChristianReligiousResultsInfluenceTeachingDangerousImportanceTendenciesCuriousPaganism Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'” ChristianSpeakReligiousDangerousLear Book:Don Wildmon: the man the networks love to hate Source: Don Wildmon: the man the networks love to hate
“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.” IfsLoveMadeStatesBeliefForceReligiousLove IsDangerousProduceHatredOperationsRegulationIntroducingBegetsReligious BeliefUnbeliefLike Love Author:Arthur Schopenhauer