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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.”

“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”

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Book:Dave Barry Turns 50

Source: Dave Barry Turns 50

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.”

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Author:Peter O'Toole

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

Source: Education and the Social Order

“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

“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

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Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“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.”

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

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

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

“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.”

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”

“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.”

“Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”

Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

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

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters