Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.
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