Religious Disaffiliation Quotes

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Hey, I'm done with it. I'm not a Scientologist [any more.]

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

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of it, simply left Judaism. We became Buddhist and Hindu and atheist or agnostic, all of which (except Christian) were more in keeping with peaceful self-transformative ideas that did not bow down to militarism.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

I am post-Catholic.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church after Martin Luther.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

We were still quite religious until I was about eight or nine. Then I watched my parents take a dramatic turn and discard all religion.

Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem.