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Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.
Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.
Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.