Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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.
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.
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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.
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
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