Dave Brat Quotes

Religion is just mind control.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I believe religion is man-made.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

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.

Religion can thrive only in a personal universe.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.