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• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Morning

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Atheist, Teaching

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1279, Library of Alexandria

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

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• Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Mean, Law

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Atheist, Soldier

  "Farewell, Falwell …" by Mickey S. Huff, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2007.

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• Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior... I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Fighting, Feelings

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• The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Christian, Book

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• The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Thinking, Religion

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 130

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• Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

  George Washington

  Religious, Spring, Hatred

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1792). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Man created God in his own image.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheist, Men, Agnostic

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  God, Christian, Army

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Atheist, Hypocrite

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• If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Religious, Religion

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Race, People

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.302, eKitap Projesi

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• And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

  James Madison

  Past, Government, Doubt

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.89, University of Virginia Press

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness".

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• Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Wisdom, Religious

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• When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Support, Religion, Atheism

  Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. Minister Plenipontentiary from the United States of America at the court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c: comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects written between the years 1753 and 1790, illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations”, p.69

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• Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Law, Presidential

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772”, p.140

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• The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.

  Craig Groeschel

  Christian, Atheist, Found

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• Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.

  John Corvino

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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