Children Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“ONE OF THE most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering.”

— Sam Harris

“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift undeserved that…

— Philip Yancey

“Religion provides the solace for the turmoil that it creates.”

— Byron Danelius

“It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while…

— Sam Harris

“Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the human species…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Once one understands that the evolving community of life on Earth is God’s beloved creation and its ruination an unspeakable sin, then deep affection…

— Elizabeth A. Johnson

“Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors--however…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age…

— Dan Brown

“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”

— Norman Spinrad

“The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the…

— Joseph Lewis

“...all the thousands of God's children who have flung themselves, stupid and glorious, over and over, into the best and worst of things, loving…

— Stacia M. Brown