Religious Stigma Quotes

Being an outspoken Christian in the music industry means always feeling out of place. It's like whatever you have accomplished is less credible because of your faith.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

The practice of requiring religious groups to register before they can engage in activities such as worship is, by its nature, subject to abuse by local jurisdictions, even in cases where it is designed by central authorities to be applied in a nondiscriminatory fashion. Nor should a legitimate concern over the destructive and unlawful behavior by a small number of groups be employed so indiscriminately that religions are wrongfully stigmatized.

I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.