If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

In England, football is a religion. In France, football is not a religion. It's wine and food.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

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