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How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Christianity
- Christmas
‘You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,’ said Aslan. ‘And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan to Caspian, in Ch. 15: Aslan Makes A Door In The Air
- Christianity
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826In: John F. Nash Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation,14 February 2008, p. 11.
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first⁠—rock’n’roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon1940–1980
- Christianity
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Christianity
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.
Robert Bellarmine1542–1621
- Anti-Religion
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), “The Emotional Factor”
- Anti-Religion
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Anti-Religion
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
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Often credited to Voltaire
- Anti-Religion
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 16
- Christianity
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration⁠—courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Anti-Religion
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Goncourt brothersJanuary 24, 1868; translation from Robert Baldick (ed. and trans.) Pages from the Goncourt Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 135.
- Atheism
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Christianity
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What’s Wrong With The World (1910), The Unfinished Temple
- Christianity