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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

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Author:David Hume

“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness.”

“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”

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Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really ancient, about how to imagine living beyond any physical bounds, which we're on the verge of now.”

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Author:Tilda Swinton

“The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of the white man and the negro from the mind of the negro. I have seen what Islam has done with our people, our people who had this feeling of negro - and it had a psychological effect of putting them in a mental prison.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“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

“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

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

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.”

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

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814

“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.”

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

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“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.”

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

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Author:John Adams

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

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”

Source: Autobiographies

“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”

“We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.”

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”

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Author:James Madison

“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”

“The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.”

“The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.”

“An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?”

“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”

“I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.”

“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”

“God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.”

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Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.”

“Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.”

“Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.”

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Author:Thurston Moore

“I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.”

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author