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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.

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.

Speculation is not knowledge.

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

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

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

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.

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

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

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

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

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.

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

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 average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

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 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 average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

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.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.