Linda Colley Quotes

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars

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

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

There is nothing as potentially polarizing as religion.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

No, I'm not a scientologist.

I think people can believe in anything.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

God save us from religion.

The twenty-first century will be regarded by future historians as a century in which religion replaced ideology as the prime animating and destructive force in human affairs.

Religion has caused more misery to all men in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Every church is orthodox to itself; to others, erroneous or heretical.

Science and religion cannot come into conflict… unless some one excites strife in them out of conceit and desire to show off one's ingenuity

Religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.