Quotes About Religion

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

Finally, as I've said, this is - why are you talking about Jewish women's wigs and people wearing turbans? That has nothing whatsoever to do with niqab.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.

Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

If God wanted women to be treated equally to men, he'd have given them penises.

In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist.

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

Well we both know there're some men who wish it was not women who came to tell that Jesus was risen. hehehe