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I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

I don't believe in atheists.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

I don't talk people into the Kingdom, I listen them into it!

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.