Upton Sinclair on religion

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.

Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!

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
• Christianity

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein1879–1955Religion and Science (1930)

• Anti-Religion
• Morality

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein1879–1955Science and Religion (1941)

• Science