The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.