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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.

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.

[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.

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

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: 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 help those who do not help themselves.

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

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

God is man idealized.

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

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

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

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

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 — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

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.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

Help yourself, then God will also help you!

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Heresy makes for progress.