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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

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

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.