Atheism Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

— Tacitus

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

— Josh McDowell

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They…

— Thomas Jefferson

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it…

— Colin Wilson

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

— John Gresham Machen

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

— Thomas Jefferson

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers…

— Bertrand Russell

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus…

— Larry Hurtado

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

— Voltaire

“The science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for…

— Simone Weil

“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them…

— John Adams