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“The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.”

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Book:Thoughts that breathe

Source: Thoughts that breathe

“Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.”

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Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.”

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Author:Marie Leszczynska

“True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”

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Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matterof faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.”

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Book:The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

“I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.”

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Book:Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...

Source: Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...

“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”

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Book:Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

“Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.”

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Book:The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]

Source: The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]

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