Jewel Quotes

I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

The Church should not be confused with religion.

I'm not really into religion.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

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

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

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

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Religion is now a matter of private judgment and observance for a majority, and thus we have become a country of not a few hundred different creeds but a few million.

The public forum is the place for religious discussion, not religious practices.

On the whole, the Anglican Church gives a question for every answer.

I grew a very strong dislike for the organized aspect of religion over the course of time.

I don't like religion.

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

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

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

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'