“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.” HumansReligionBornMy OwnViewsRaceAtheismSourceDiseaseRegardMiseryAtheistPositive AtheismHuman Race Book:Why I Am Not a Christian Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.” IfsSpiritReligionReligiousHeardPeriodsMiseryHistoricalDetailsProsperousNarration Book:Dialogues and Natural History of Religion Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.” ReligionWaitingForgetTakenSacrificeMastersConscienceMadnessLaysMiseryAlcoholMysteriousNativeRegionsSavagesRoutesPeasantsUnrealCrossroadsShadyGuinea Author:Jacques Roumain
“Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.” BelieveLawReligionFightingEvilNamesWomenSinDivineGoodnessDiseaseMiseryContraryOperationsUrgesCombatDivine Law Author:Lily Montagu
“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.” PeopleReasonReligionChurchForgetImagineAtheismMinutesMiseryTaverns Author:Mikhail Bakunin