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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
In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Demian (1919), p. 9. Prologue
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 secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
Christopher Hitchens1949–2011“Ireland” (1998).
- Politics
Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Speer, Albert (1997). Inside the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 96.
- Christianity
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Often credited to Voltaire
- Anti-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
- Anti-Religion
- Clever Jabs
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men, — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5
- Family
- Women
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free
Julia Ward Howe1819–1910Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862)In context
- Christianity
- Freedom
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915Credo (1901)
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
- Anti-Religion
There is now, in France, in each village, a lighted torch⁠—the schoolmaster⁠—and a mouth which blows upon it⁠—the curé.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Histoire d’un crime. Déposition d’un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint-Antoine
- Anti-Religion
- Education
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)
- Christianity
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume1711–1776A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding, Part 4, Section 7
- Philosophy
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Tell My Horse (1938), Ch. 15, p. 219
- God