Tana French Quotes

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

I think people can believe in anything.

I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Religion is just mind control.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

You cannot struggle against religion. Those who have tried this have been doomed.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Religions are, for the most part, bad. But religion is not.

A good deal of the political battle of the future will be a conflict between religion and unbelief:

I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.