Religion Decline Quotes

When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

… as science advances religion necessarily recedes, and this is a process I wish to encourage, because I consider that, on the whole, the influence of religion is malign.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.