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Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.
For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.
The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.