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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
With soap, baptism is a good thing.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Religion is all bunk.
You are all stardust.
I am a daylight atheist.
I think; therefore I am.
The atheist has no hope.
One hates what one fears.
Then why did you tell me?
Thank God I'm an atheist.
I'm a born - again atheist.
I don't believe in atheists.
God is the absolute truth...
No one ever dies an atheist.
All thinking men are atheists.
Everyday is an atheist holiday.
Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.
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