Afraid of death Quote by Christopher Hitchens

We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we…

— James D. Watson

“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of…

— Alain de Botton

“So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— Sigmund Freud

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such…

— Carl Sagan

“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,…

— daniel quinn

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of…

— A. N. Wilson

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

— Bertrand Russell