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- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
- Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for…
- Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.…
- The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
- Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
- Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
- Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be…
- [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
- Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep…
- Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though…
- Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
- Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
- One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all…
- The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
- Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.
- In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want…
- Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us…
- What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend…
- This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .…
- Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized…
- A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe…
- In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew.…
- I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.
- Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.
- To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or…
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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