Quotes About Impact

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

Hurting people is my business.

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.