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A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
- Knowledge
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
Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won’t have to go to work on your birthday.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957“Sapolsky on Religion”, Human Behavioral Biology 150/250 (Spring 2002)
- Religion
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Androcles and the Lion (1913), Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #83
- God
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
The Churches as Churches have always been and cannot fail to be institutions not only alien to, but directly hostile towards, Christ’s teaching.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter III, Christianity Misunderstood by Believers
- Christianity
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
?UnattributedIn Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (US: Viking, 2006), p. 17
- Philosophy
Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?
Voltaire1694–1778Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano’s, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 160 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767
- Christianity
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Mother Night (1962)
- Faith
What a queer thing is Christian salvation! Believing in firemen will not save a burning house; believing in doctors will not make one well, but believing in a savior saves men. Fudge!
LWLemuel Washburn
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg1933–2021Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)