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Quotes against religion

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The gods conform scrupulously to the sentiments of their worshippers: they have reasons for so doing.
Anatole France1844–1924The White Stone (1905), Ch. III, p. 135
- Religion
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Religion
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Religion
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 8
- Faith
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 6
- Religion
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gatesborn 1955“In Search of the Real Bill Gates,” Time (13 January 1997)
It is characteristic of theistic “tolerance” that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
Emma Goldman1869–1940The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)
Jesus Christ⁠—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens⁠—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Christianity
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Religion
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Theology
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 51
- Atheism
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988
- Prayer
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Often credited to Voltaire
Pascal proves nothing in favour of Religion, unless that a man of genius may be foolish on some subjects, and is but a child, when he is weak enough to listen to his prejudices.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 167
- Clever Jabs
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo1802–1885