Religion Abuse Quotes

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

I think every religion is founded with good intentions, but with any good thing, there's a negative use for it.

The Exploitation of Religion Must Be Opposed.

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But then people distort it and use it as an excuse to be a bully. It's sad, but that's the way it's worked for a several thousand years now.

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.