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Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no temple, no church - because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church. The happy person has nothing like religious activity because his whole life is religious.

So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.

Some kneel and lie to God.

Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.

some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

Speculation is not knowledge.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent.

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent deity.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.