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Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Lord Byron1788–1824Don Juan (1819–1824), Canto the First (1 of 2)In context
- Christianity
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it’s me!
George Carlin1937–2008“Interview With Jesus”
- Christianity
- Comedy
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time… But He loves you! He loves you, and He needs MONEY!
George Carlin1937–2008You Are All Diseased (1999)
- Comedy
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“Credo” (1991)
- Morality
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
- Wisdom
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938In a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a eulogy for Darrow by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1938)
- Happiness
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941River out of Eden (1995)
- Science
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 11. Memes: the new replicators
- Faith
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (15 April 1992)
- Faith
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Root of All Evil? (2006)
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and … people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Conversations with a Christian Lady (1774)
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Remark, attributed in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874), p. 279 (note).
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)
- Morality
The Church in the colonies is a white man’s Church, a foreigners’ Church. It does not call the colonized to the ways of God, but to the ways of the white man, to the ways of the master, the ways of the oppressor.
Frantz Fanon1925–1961The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 7
- Race
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JFJames Feibleman