Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Their object is disunion.

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

… the strangest sight in the world—two races hating one another for the love of God

In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

Should the idea get abroad that there is likely to be no union among us, it will damp the minds of the people, diminish the glory of our struggle, and lessen its importance; because it will open to our view future prospects of war and dissension among ourselves

Regrettably, many religious traditions exacerbate our innate proclivity to divide the world into two clearly demarcated camps, and in doing so, this fans the flames of intolerance and hate.

We don't always win when we are united, but we always lose when we are divided.

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us.

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.