Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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