“"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!” LittlesUseCareKidsHateNaturalChristianityPracticeDangerousHavensParticularStandardsI HateNotionDon't CareGenderSexualityReactionsI Don't CareFakeRelyOur SocietyVegetablesSuperstitionsDisgustingBiasLittle KidDarlingExhibitsNormalityTrendyGender Bias Author:Susie Bright
“Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathens, who in the fourth century came over in great numbers to the Christians, embraced more readily this sort of Christianity, as having a greater affinity with their old superstitions, than that of the sincere Christians; who by the lamps of the seven Churches of Asia, and not by the lamps of the Monasteries, had illuminated the Church Catholic during the three first centuries.” FirstsHandsChristianFormThreeChurchNumbersChristianityGreaterCenturyCatholicSevenSincereFourthSuperstitionsAsiaLampsGodlinessAffinityChristian ChurchHeathenMonasteries Book:Observations Source: Observations
“Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.” WorldHas BeensBookShowsChristianityWrittenAtheismIgnoranceEnlightenmentDoctrineSuperstitions Author:Edgar Lee Masters
“Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.” MenHas BeensTwoChristianityImpossibleMoralitySalvationUnionsTendenciesCurseOppositionSuperstitionsAdequate Author:Mark Hopkins
“You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.” KnowsWayMeanTurnsThreeLostCausesChristianityPrayingSaintSuperstitionsThree TimesPatronLost Cause Author:Ciaran Hinds
“I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.” EarthBeliefChristianityFashionInternationalDeclineSuperstitionsPeace On EarthCowardly Author:Erich Ludendorff
“Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.” RomanceBeliefBornImaginationAcceptingChristianityEuropeFilledSpreadContradictionSuperstitionsAbsurdityMetaphysicalArdentImbeciles Author:Frederick The Great
“I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.” MeanChildrenStillsReligionNamesReligiousChristianityMessThroatSuperstitionsProphecyMisunderstoodLoathe Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Christianity is a pestilent superstition.” ReligionReligiousChristianitySuperstitions Author:Tacitus
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.” IfsMindBelieveWholeWantedFacesPoliticalValuesLeftReligiousChristianityStudyModernCrimeNeededEvidenceScientistFunctionFilledWesternAcceptedEducatedPropagandaExplanationCriticizeDeclineSuperstitionsSecularAccustomedReligious FaithVacuumsCredulityZealotFace ValueEvaporation Author:Paul Johnson
“I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.” WellsSaidCountryStatesReligiousUnitedChristianityUnited StatesFundamentalsSuperstitionsPrimitiveBias Author:Gore Vidal
“In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).” DifferentChristianityDangerousExampleCriticsSettingSettingsErasSuperstitions Author:Larry Hurtado
“I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.” ThinkingBelieveHeavenProcessChristianityGoneHellDangerousEnlightenmentAngelIslamDon't BelieveSuperstitionsTestedHeaven And Hell Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?” PeopleIfsBeliefChristianityStrangeIslamSuperstitionsFridayAstrologySuperstitious Author:Jostein Gaarder
“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.” WorldWisdomPoliticalDeathReligionReligiousKnownChristianityAtheismParticularAtheistFeaturesSuperstitionsScience And ReligionFablesExaminingPhilosophy Of ReligionOrganized ReligionRedeemingFounding Fathers Anti ReligionScience ReligionFounding Fathers AtheistChristianity From Founding FathersChristian AtheistReligion ChristianPhilosophy And Religion Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.” YearsHas BeensUseChristianReligionCultureNationsBornChurchSinChristianityStepsTakenFiveAtheismHundredDiscoveryInnovationArchitectureAstronomyArtisticGreekCurseSpiteEnlightenedBigotryProgressiveSuperstitionsBiblicalScience And ReligionAvoidedEvery StepChildbirthGeologyScience ReligionChristian AtheistScience Vs ReligionChristian NationAnesthetics Author:Mark Twain
“I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites” WorldMadeDeathHalfKnownChristianityFoolMythologyFeaturesSuperstitionsHypocriteOther HalfFablesOne HalfRedeeming Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.” MindHas BeensReligionReligiousChristianityAtheismCenturyIgnorancePrideConstitutionFruitAtheistNobleTrialsEnterpriseBigotryEstablishmentSuperstitionsFifteenSecularPersecutionFoundingBondageChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianPhilosophy Of ReligionUs Founding FathersClergyIndolenceFounding Fathers ReligionSeparation Between Church And StateShacklesFounding Fathers ReligiousReligion GodFederalistFounding Fathers Anti ReligionFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaFederalist PapersAmerican Founding FathersFounding Fathers AtheistReligious PhilosophyDeismChristianity From Founding FathersReligion And PoliticsChristian AtheistReligion ChristianPhilosophy And ReligionReligion And GovernmentFaith ReligionServilityReligious PersecutionReligious BigotryChristianity And GovernmentChristian Persecution Author:James Madison
“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.” MenWorldChildrenHas BeensEarthReligionPoliticsReligiousHalfChristianityMillionsSupportEffectsFoolErrorsInnocentInchesSuperstitionsFoundingIntroductionHypocriteCoercionChurch And StateMen WomenSeparation Of Church And StateOther HalfOur Founding FathersSectsFounding Fathers ChristianUs Founding FathersUniformityFounding Fathers ReligionSeparation Between Church And StateOne HalfFounding Fathers ReligiousReligion GodFounding Fathers Anti ReligionFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaAmerican Founding FathersFounding Fathers AtheistChristianity From Founding FathersReligion ChristianChristian FatherChristian RightFaith ReligionChristian GodInnocent ManReligious SectsBeing A Hypocrite Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786 Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786