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For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

Gayness is a non-issue.

Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

God help those who do not help themselves.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

God is man idealized.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

God is just a statistics.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible, who was sent by God to reveal the divine nature, summarized in 'God is Love.'

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.