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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.
Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.
We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.