Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious…

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

— John Adams

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

— Henry Fielding

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and…

— Charles Dickens

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly…

— David Hume

[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

— John Adams

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the…

— Bertrand Russell

Men created God in their own image.

— Anonymous

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do…

— Steven Weinberg

In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society.…

— Francis Schaeffer

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every…

— Bertrand Russell

Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that…

— Howard Zinn

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious…

— John Lennon