Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

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

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.

Religion is just mind control.

I believe religion is man-made.

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

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

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

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.

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 something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

Religion is a collective insanity.

As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.