Fables Quote by John Adams

“As I understand the christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have…

— John Adams

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

The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not…

— Thomas Jefferson

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

— Steven T. Katz

“I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. [In a letter to Frederick the Great]”

— Voltaire

“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime)…

— Thomas Paine

“There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“.. "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe”

— Nykki Mills

“For it is the fate of every myth to creep by degrees into the narrow limits of some alleged historical reality, and to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most…

— Marguerite Yourcenar