I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nicea, and long before, to this day.
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
With soap, baptism is a good thing.
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!
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