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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
- Anti-Religion
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
- Anti-Religion
He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Aids to Reflection (1825), Aphorism 63, p. 89
- Truth & Lies
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 62 (translated by H. L. Mencken, 1918)
- Anti-Religion
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
James Baldwin1924–1987“Letter from a Region of My Mind”
- Anti-Religion
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XXXIII: Pictured Windows
- Faith
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater1909–1998Said in July 1981, on Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell’s opposition to Sandra Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court nomination
- Clever Jabs
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Addressing a Bible class in Plains, Georgia (March 1976), as quoted in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser (11 April 1976)
- Life & Death
Well, speaking as a Christian, I would like to say that I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Remarks to a Baptist convention in Texas during the 1952 presidential campaign
- Clever Jabs
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Speech, “Le centenaire de Voltaire”, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Voltaire, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris (30 May 1878); published in Actes et paroles—Depuis l’exil (1878)
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)
- Anti-Religion
No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Interview with George Sylvester Viereck (1929), as reported in Denis Brian, Einstein: A Life (1996)
There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), “The Moral Problem”
- Anti-Religion
The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision’s greatest enemy.
William Blake1757–1827The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)