We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos.
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.
Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.
Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.
If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?
If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth...
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