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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”

“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

Source: Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'

“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”

“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.”

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

“All religions have been made by men.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Source: The God Delusion

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”

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Book:The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson

“Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.”

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir