Mary Douglas Quotes

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on non-adherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

If the Shiites in a Sunni-dominated country insisted on practicing their religion openly, then … the Sunni state had no choice but to wage war on them.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them, capture and besiege them and prepare for them every kind of ambush…But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free.

Every adult is free to choose his own religion, but fanaticism has to be fought lest freedom perish.

Adherents of almost all religions, as they move away in time from the source, are invariably known to have employed coercion either to keep people within the fold of their religion, or to convert others into their faith.

Catholic Menace to Our Government

Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.

Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!