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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 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.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

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 could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

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 the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I don't believe in atheists.

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 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 know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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 a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

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 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.