Religious Greed Quotes

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.