Religion Is Poison Quotes

#1. Us and them" religion is poison to the soul, and it often takes a lifetime of humiliation to detoxify us from it. In the Christian tradition, those who are

Jonathan Martin

#2. Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. On one occasion, in the middle of an intimate talk, Mao leaned over and whispered in the Dalai Lama's ear, "I understand you very well, but of course religion is poison.

John Avedon

#4. We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Jeff Miller

#5. She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.

Clive Barker

#6. I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

James Buchanan

#7. The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

Stephen King

#8. Faith may be a gift in religion, but in science it's poison, for faith is no way to find truth.

Jerry A. Coyne

#9. Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

Philip K. Dick

#10. Religion, far from being beneficial food, turns to poison in infected brains.

Voltaire

#11. Religion poisons everything good in this world.

Ryan Reynolds