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There is now, in France, in each village, a lighted torch⁠—the schoolmaster⁠—and a mouth which blows upon it⁠—the curé.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Histoire d’un crime. Déposition d’un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint-Antoine
- Education
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899“Some Mistakes of Moses” (1879) Section II, “Free Schools”.
Blasphemy is the word that the majority hisses into the ear of the few.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Religion
Blasphemy is a padlock which hypocrisy tries to put on the lips of all honest men.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Blasphemy lecture delivered at Brooklyn, N.Y., prior to Ingersoll’s departure for Europe, February 22d, 1885 (reproduced at pg. 105).
- Religion
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Some Mistakes of Moses (1879) Section III, “The Politicians”.
- Laws
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Some Mistakes of Moses (1879) Section III, “The Politicians”.
- Clever Jabs
- Laws
Blasphemy is what an old mistake says of a newly discovered truth.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Truth & Lies
The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Great Infidels (1881)
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826In: John F. Nash Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation,14 February 2008, p. 11.
- Christianity
Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible for a moral code: it advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because: we need more atheists — and nothin’ will get you there faster than readin’ the damn Bible.
Penn Jilletteborn 1955“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?” Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2 episode 6 (6 May 2004)
- Atheism
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
James Joyce1882–1941Stephen Hero (1944)
- Christianity
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
- Christianity
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
John Locke1632–1704An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 18
- Religion