George Bernard Shaw on Christianity

Some men see things as they are and say why⁠—I dream things that never were and say why not.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Abraham Lincoln1809–1865

• Anti-Religion

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Is Theology Poetry?” (1945)

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.