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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Mikhail Bakunin
People, Religion, Atheism

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

Mikhail Bakunin
Men, Religion, Atheism
"God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

Religion is a collective insanity.

Mikhail Bakunin
Insanity, Atheism, Positive Atheism
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Mikhail Bakunin
Atheist, Atheism, Nihilism
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Mikhail Bakunin
Atheism, Doe, Boots
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin
Long, Heaven, Atheism
"Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Mikhail Bakunin
Lying, Atheism, Divine
Mikhail Bakunin (1985). “Michael Bakunin: From out of the dustbin”

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

Mikhail Bakunin
Kings, Soldier, Atheism

We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

Mikhail Bakunin
Atheist, Atheism, Facts

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