If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape.
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.
Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.
The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.
The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.
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