Religion Criticism Quotes

#1. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

Karl Marx

#2. A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Salman Rushdie

#4. It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.

Christina Engela

#5. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

Steve Allen

#6. The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. Mr. Hicks appeared to have a deep dislike of all religion. On his Facebook page, nearly all of his posts expressed support for atheism, criticism of Christian conservatives or both.

Anonymous

#8. The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Karl Marx

#9. Actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

Nance O'Neil

#10. Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

Lord Kelvin

#11. As noble (and often ignoble) creatures of the universe, the people of the world must acknowledge the nakedness of long held beliefs and be open to constructive criticism. Even if the criticism comes from within or without the structures held sacrosanct.

Leviak B. Kelly

#12. Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#13. Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don't hold up well under scrutiny.

Amanda Marcotte

#14. The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Sam Harris

#15. The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. Scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.

Don Cupitt

#17. Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.

John Campbell Shairp

#18. Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.

Robert M. Price

#19. Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Leslie Fiedler

#20. In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...

Joseph McCabe

#21. In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a moral code and at worst social etiquette.

John Ralston Saul

#22. Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#23. Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

John Dewey

#24. In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

George J. Mitchell

#25. My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.

Karl Popper

#26. In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

Voltaire

#27. In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought.

Paul Blanshard

#28. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism

Jon Krakauer

#29. Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

Susan Sontag

#30. The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again.

Christopher Hitchens