Neil Young Quotes

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

If my son were to oppose the Catholic Church, I myself would carry the faggots to burn him.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

A good deal of the political battle of the future will be a conflict between religion and unbelief:

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

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

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.