333 Quotes About Superstition

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.

For man without myth is Othello with Desdemona gone: chaos descends, faith vanishes and superstitions prowl in the mind.

And a lil secret, If you want to understand a culture, look for it’s superstitions.

Somehow, despite all the science homebrewing requires, I’d become irrationally superstitious.

It takes irrationality to hold, but intelligence to profit from, conflicting beliefs and attitudes.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.

Expansion is not a matter of physical travel, it's a matter of mental travel. How much have you traveled inside your mind, that’s the question!

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.