Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion — its message becomes meaningless.

It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion — its message becomes meaningless.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

after you stop believing in santa claus, the whole world just goes downhill

You will see, as time goes by,” said Ibn Rushd, “that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God’s worst advocates. It may take a thousand and one years but in the end religion will shrivel away and only then will we begin to live in God’s truth.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

"You will see, as time goes by", said Ibn Rushd, "that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God's worst advocates."

We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.

Faith-based religion must suffer the same slide into obsolescence

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.