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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
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Religion and Science (1930)
- Anti-Religion
- Morality
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Science and Religion (1941)
- Science
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Is Theology Poetry?” (1945)
- Christianity
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Sex
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion, other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark Twain1835–1910In: William E. Phipps Mark Twain’s Religion, Mercer University Press, 2003, p. 196
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
?UnattributedOften credited to Patrick Henry
- America
- Christianity
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Christianity
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Christianity
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963God in the Dock (1994) p. 101.
- Christianity
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
- Anti-Religion
- Prayer
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The World’s Last Night
- Christianity
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Anti-Religion
- Money
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Morality
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
- Anti-Religion
- Good & Evil