“Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.” ReligionChurchChristianityMembersFellowsSinnerPoundsHammersHalfwayDoorwaysChurch Members Author:Mordecai Ham
“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself” StatesGovernmentReligionHouseBlackChurchUnitedUnited StatesLandDutyCitizensEssentialsConstitutionFellowsBillsMeetingsPracticalsOccasionsGreekPurityDistinctionAddressesGrantsTerritoryBaptistsObjectionsMississippiCarolinaContainingNorth CarolinaConstitution Of The United StatesCreeksApprovingSalemPublic Lands Author:James Madison
“People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.” PeopleChristianPoliticalReligionBitsPresidentChristReligiousTeacherDogMessagesPicksFellowsPoundsDaddyHookedParablesAnti Christ Author:John Lennon
“And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.” HumansStillsReasonReligionHuman BeingsFellowsVarietyBrokeTreatmentRomeDisplayScholarExecutionAshesProtestantsHereticReformersDisgracefulQualms Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” ChildrenBeautifulReligionSpiritualityReligiousFreedomWifeAtheismTheorySmartRespectFellowsAtheistIntelligenceCynicalAtheisticPhilosophy Of ReligionTheismPhilosophy And ReligionGod DelusionCurmudgeonGreatest AtheistDaily AtheistMinority Report Author:H. L. Mencken
“An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.” KnowsMenShouldEarthTogetherReligionHeavenEnjoyAtheismFellowsAtheistFellow Man Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.” ThinkingKnowsHumansChildrenSeemsTodayReligionOrderNaturalHellConnectionsFellowsEducatedMy ChildrenFoundersNatural OrderGod Is Not GreatUninterestedSubtle Atheist Book:Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.” HumansMatterHelpingAmericaReligionEvilMoralMillionsAmountMoralityFellowsMajorityHuman LifeAbortionResolveAssaultCalmnessSacrednessMoral Evil Author:Ronald Reagan
“I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.” MenSeemsReligionGamesChallengesPrayerResponsibilityAcceptingCryPrayingWeaknessAdvantageFellowsGrantsFellow ManTrickeryRules Of The Game Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.” BelieveReligionChurchChanceThousandCatholicFellowsTrialsCatholic ChurchProtestantsDamnationPurgatory Author:Robert Green Ingersoll