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I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

I am for religion, against religions.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards.

I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.