organized religion

Noun

Meaning

an institution to express belief in a divine power

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

religion faith creed ecclesiastical ecclesiastic religions religious belief organised religion institutional religion faiths corporate religion social religion organized cult organized dogma regular cult
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Hypernyms

establishment institution

Hyponyms

judaism buddhism hinduism shinto church Scientology

Examples

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people. Jesse Ventura

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood. Grace Slick

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. Neil Young

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. Christopher Hitchens

The last bastions of resistance to evolutionary theory are organized religion and cultural anthropology. Napoleon Chagnon

Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done. Elbert Hubbard

Close letter words and terms

organized movement organized person organized pitch music organized sports organized tour organizer