Argument Quote by Thomas Jefferson

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

— Desmond Tutu

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair…

— Mark Twain

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.

— Christopher Hitchens

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

— George Bernard Shaw

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people…

— Frank Herbert

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

— James Madison

“You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.’ But you can…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

— Christopher Hitchens

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious…

— Sam Harris

What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.

— Ann Widdecombe

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

— Sherman Alexie