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The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

Then why did you tell me?

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God. God shows himself by allowing man to establish truth.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.