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

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

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

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 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 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 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.

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.

The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.

The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?