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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.

When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.