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organised religion

Noun

Meaning

organised religion (plural organised religions)

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of organized religion

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. Kingsley Amis

When you look at organised religion of whatever sort - whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism - wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law. Philip Pullman

Organised religion is something I find hard to follow. Martin Firrell

Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. Alan Moore

Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. Alan Moore

Organised religion allying itself to theology and often more concerned with its vested interests than with the things of the spirit encourages a temper which is the very opposite of science. Jawaharlal Nehru

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