Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Atheist, Prayer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Life, God, Education

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• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Prayer, Hands

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• I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-rna'am cretins who just don't give a damn about anyone's gratification but their own.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Rna, Giving

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• I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Feet, Two

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• There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Angel, Heaven

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• The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Feet, Atheism, Safe

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• I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Welfare, Periods

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• Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Ideas, Atheism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Jesus, Lying, Real

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• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Prayer, Men

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• 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.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Hate, Doubt, Religion

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• The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a privilege denied to everyone else, even including nonprofit organizations? None! My contention is that with the churches exempted from property taxation, you and I have to pay that much more in taxes to make up for what they're not contributing.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Organization, Rose, Church

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• ... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Needs, Crutches, Crippled

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• Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the coming of a Messiah. Until someone proves otherwise, therefore, these stories must be considered nothing more than folk tales consisting in equal parts of legend and wish fulfillment.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Wish, Legends

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• The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Religion, Hell

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• So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sacrifice, Feet, Long

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they conceded the only evidence we have for his existence is in the Gospels. But don't take Life's word for it. In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer admitted that there isn't a shred of conclusive proof that Christ ever lived, let alone was the son of God. He concludes that one must therefore accept both on faith.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Jesus, Book, Son

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• The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Punishment, Church, Sin

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• I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Atheist, Tombstone

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• The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Jobs, Acceptance

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• I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Hurt, Say Anything, Want

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• Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Moving, Wine, School

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• I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical figure at all.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Jesus, Believe, Historical

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