Positive atheism Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

— Elbert Hubbard

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

— Elbert Hubbard

Theology is Classified Superstition.

— Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

— Elbert Hubbard

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

— Elbert Hubbard

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

— Elbert Hubbard

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

— Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

— Elbert Hubbard

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what…

— Elbert Hubbard

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only…

— Elbert Hubbard

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the…

— Elbert Hubbard

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion,…

— Elbert Hubbard

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -…

— Elbert Hubbard

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was…

— Elbert Hubbard