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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.