Atheist Quote by Stephen Prothero

“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the…

— Tom Robbins

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

No religion but blasphemes a little.

— Victor Hugo

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

— Kedar Joshi

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as…

— T. S. Eliot

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of…

— Katha Pollitt

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

— Arthur Helps

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

— Carl Jung

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact…

— Anonymous

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

— Ricky Gervais

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

— Frederick Buechner