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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love
our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
- G. K. Chesterton
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid,
doctrinaire religion.
- Carl Sagan
No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the
crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.
- Steve Allen
Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
- Bernard Katz
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of
common sense.
- Chapman Cohen
[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of
obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- Mark Twain
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every
case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as The Dark Ages.
- Ruth Hurmence Green
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious
conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good
grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
The bastard! He doesn't exist!
- Samuel Beckett
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Even if god really did exist, it would be necessary to abolish him.
- M. Bakunin
One had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of
so much filth makes it very advisable.
- F. Nietzche
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the
improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the
capacity for clear & realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually
ill.
- H.L. Mencken
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary
friend.
- Yassar Arafat (On going to war over religion)
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its
adherents.
- George Orwell
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than
the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be
absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
- Frederick the Great
She never attends synagogue, but the synagogue she never attends is always an
Orthodox synagogue.
Faith is that quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.
The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally
has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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