Quotes About Cults & Religion...

"The difference between a cult and an established religion is sometimes about one generation."
-Scott McLemee

"When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults."
-Daniel Bell

"The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies."
-Keith Henson

"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult."
-Keith Henson

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

"Write a paper promising salvation, make it a ‘structured’ something or a ‘virtual’ something, or ‘abstract’, ‘distributed’ or ‘higher-order’ or ‘applicative’ and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult."
- Edsger W. Dijkstra

"God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion"
- Dan Castellaneta

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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