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  • The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

    God   Christian   Army  
    "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".
  • I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

    Death   Mother   Atheist  
    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.383, Penguin
  • The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Love   Country   Peace  
    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

  • The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.55, Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  • Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

    Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books
  • In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

    Religious   War   Reality  
  • I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

    Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.32, eKitap Projesi
  • God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

    Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.104, Del Rey
  • You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.

    Christian   War   Race  
    Bertrand Russell, Robert Edward Egner (1961). “The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”
  • It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press
  • If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

    God   Atheist   Religion  
  • Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  • Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

    "The Lowest Animal" (1940)
  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

    "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).
  • In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press
  • True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

    Love   Life   Inspiring  
    "Reading God's Mind: His Thoughts for Every Life Situation". Book by Dottie Eichhorn (p. 171), 2011.
  • I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

  • It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

    "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1992.
  • I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

    "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".
  • Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

    "Man's Place in the Animal World" (ca. 1896)
  • Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    A Mencken Chrestomathy ch. 30 (1949)
  • It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

    William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.9, 谷月社
  • The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.886, Library of Alexandria
  • The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

    Believe   Mind   Religion  
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