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Religion is all bunk.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Puritanism⁠—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State, p. 624
- Anti-Religion
It was the experience of mystery⁠—even if mixed with fear⁠—that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‘opiate of the people’ have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Christianity
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
Voltaire1694–1778
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
- Anti-Religion
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
- Christianity
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1: “The Dickens Period”
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Christianity
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms (1958), p. 32
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 5, “The Practical Conclusion”
- Christianity
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty…this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Androcles and the Lion (1913), Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
- Anti-Religion
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Christianity