Quotes About Religion

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

No religion can be built on force.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.