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- Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact…
- We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."…
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But…
- Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
- [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
- Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they…
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
- I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
- RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are…
- HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
- No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
- The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose,…
- The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,…
- The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to…
- Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,…
- It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
- There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.
- There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the…
- Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every…
- I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when…
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