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The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.
LLLynn Lavner
- Christianity
Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man…who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Anti-Religion
They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he’s coming back to save us. But they don’t understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
- Christianity
What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires⁠—desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. VI: International relations, p. 97
- Anti-Religion
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (16 July 1910)
- Christianity
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Remark, attributed in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874), p. 279 (note).
- Anti-Religion
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen Kingborn 1947
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- Christianity
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. II
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
?UnattributedIn Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (US: Viking, 2006), p. 17
- Anti-Religion
- Philosophy
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899
- Anti-Religion
We must repsect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 1
- Anti-Religion
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899
- Anti-Religion
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
- Anti-Religion