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Religion Quotes by Baron d'Holbach
- Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by…
- What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man of common sense.
- Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a…
- The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
- It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on…
- If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide -…
- If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
- If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception…
- In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for…
- It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
- People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...…
- Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make…
- The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him…
- All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
- Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi