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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)
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Our Endangered Values (2005), Ch. 14 : Worshiping the Prince of Peace, or Preemptive War?, p. 147
- Christianity
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”.
- Anti-Religion
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Anti-Religion
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Anti-Religion
As the French say, there are three sexes — men, women, and clergymen.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 313
- Comedy
The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Sydney Smith1771–1845“The Judge That Smites Contrary to the Law: A Sermon Preached…March 28, 1824”, in The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith (1860) p. 428
When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)In context
- Theology
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Nobody said when.
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 89)
- Comedy
Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
Christopher Hitchens1949–2011The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish
- Politics
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 2:27 (KJV)In context
A religion may be discerned in capitalism⁠—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.
Walter Benjamin1892–1940Translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)
- Economics
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant1847–1933The Freethinker’s Text-Book: Christianity
- Anti-Religion
- Women
The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770–1831Logic, Chapter 1
- Philosophy
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
Tertullian150–220Ad Scapulam, 2.2
- Freedom