Quotes About Organized

I don't concern myself about articles of faith, but I will not tolerate it, if a cleric (Pfaffe) concerns himself with earthly matters. The organized lie must somehow be broken, so that the state is absolute lord.

On second glance, though, the activities didn't seem regimented or organized enough to have been put together by the Earth military. The EDF tended to lay out everything in straight lines and perfect grids. Conversely, this work seemed energetic and independent, as if each unit was following only a general master plan.

I like to do everything proper, for it saves one a lot of trouble.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.