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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.”

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'. more

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“One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.”

Believe May Religion Three I Believe Lips

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.”

Ifs Two Religion Three Left Equal Tables Add Absurd Heavenly Peculiar Dogma Three Times Celestial Trinity Idiotic Multiplication Subtraction

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.”

Giving Done Character Religion Practice Ethics Sacred Harm Theology Ignorant Impulse Sanctions Lofty

Book:Religion and Science

Source: Religion and Science

“I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.”

Knows Lasts Form Religion Church Accepting Crime Denial Useless Pioneers

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.”

Ifs Way Christian Religion Pay Moral Crime Ancient Committed Jew Credit Savior Sheep Slate Extravagance

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.”

Ifs Humans Ideas Religion Wish Race Morality Rewards Miserable Human Race Subversive

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.”

Religion Atheism Instance Brutal Dominant Stagnant

Author:George Agnew Reid

“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.”

Religion Belief Higher Disease Worship Adults Rate Creator Abortion Mortality Pregnancy Juvenile Homicide Teen Pregnancy

Author:Gregory S. Paul

“This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.”

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