Quotes About Control

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

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.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

The one thing I like about the religion is, I'm never at a loss to do something. No matter what happens in my life, there is something for me to do so I don't feel as though I have lost control.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.