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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
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
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
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved — the Cross.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Thomas Jefferson (3 September 1816)
- Christianity
Faith is the eye that sees nothing and rejoices in it.
Iain Banks1954–2013Feersum Endjinn (1994), Chapter 9, Section 2 (p. 265)
- Faith
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
The far-from-original point I will try to make now should seem obvious: There is an unsettling similarity between the rituals of the obsessive-compulsive and the rituals of the observantly religious.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957“Circling the Blanket for God”, The Trouble with Testosterone (1997), p. 263
- Religion
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“Credo” (1991)
- Morality
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
- Comedy
If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I’d check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.
Bill Maherborn 1956Larry King Live, 11 August 2005; in response to a called-in question if he would become a believer if the Lord spoke to him
- Clever Jabs
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)
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
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
Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith.
Bhagat Singh1907–1931Why I am an atheist? (1930)
- Faith
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937Letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930)