Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca,Roman philosopher and statesman 4 BC – AD 65
"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can also make you commit atrocities."Voltaire
"Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."Voltaire
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."Voltaire
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire",French author and playwright (1694-1778)
"The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,German author (1749-1832)
"Religion is excellent stuff for keepingcommon people quiet."Napoleon Bonaparte
"It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it."Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (1792-1822)
"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science."Ingersoll
"With soap, baptism is a good thing."Ingersoll
"The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know."Ingersoll
"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who drowned his own?"Ingersoll
The inspiration of the bible depends onthe ignorance of the person who reads it.Ingersoll
"As people become more intelligentthey care less for preachers and more for teachers."Robert Green Ingersoll,American politician and lecturer (1833-1899)
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."Mark Twain
"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. "Mark Twain
Mr. Clemens was once asked whether he feared death. He said that he did not, in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain",American author and humorist (1835-1910)
On Theology:"Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"? "Karlheinz Deschner, German writer (1924- )
On the Trinity:"For a "monotheistic" religionit should be sufficient with three gods."Arnulf Øverland
"What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly."Arnulf Øverland, Norwegian poetand writer (1889-1968)
Religion is an insult to human dignity.With or without it you would havegood people doing good thingsand evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things,that takes religion.Steven Weinberg
Everyone Is Entitled To Their Own Opinion's,But Not Their Own Facts.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."Albert Einstein
"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."Albert Einstein
By the age of 12 Albert Einstein was questioningthe truth of many biblical stories:"The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression"Albert Einstein
"Religion is all bunk."Thomas Edison
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, or of a God."Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931)
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?Aristophanes
What can be asserted whithout evidence can also be dismissed whithout evidence.Christopher Hitchens
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.Infinity0
The invisible and the non-existentlook very much alike.Delos McKown
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day;Give him a religion, and he'll starve to deathwhile praying for a fish.Unknown
Everyone starts out being an atheist.No one is born with belief in anything.Andy Rooney
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.Denis Diderot
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.George Carlin
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.Friedrich Nietzsche
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy,but I reject them all.Gene Roddenberry
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.Henry Mencken
Suppose we've chosen the wrong god.Every time we go to churchwe're just making him madder and madder.Homer Simpson
Prayer has no place in public school, just like facts have no place in organized religion.Superintendent Chalmers (The Simpsons)
Don't pray in my school,and I won't think in your church.Unknown
Religions are all alike foundedupon fables and mythologies.Thomas Jefferson
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.Baron D'Holbach
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs.Brad Reddekopp
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. Unknown
Two hands working can do morethan a thousand clasped in prayer.Unknown
An idea does not gain truth as it gains followers. Amanda bloom
The first requisite of the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the masses.Karl Marx
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses,it's the cyanide.Tom Robbins
Religion is against women's right and freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. Taslima Nasrin
The bible and church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. Elizabeth C. Stanton
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.Frederick Douglass (American statesman and former slave)
Every man thinks God is on his side.The rich and powerful know he is.Jean Anouilh
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.Jesse Ventura
Fear is the mother of all gods. Nature does all things spontaneously by herself without their meddling. Lucretius
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.James Madison
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.Pierre Charron
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understand the world.Richard Dawkins
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