Atheism Quotes - Page 56

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

The universe is a put-up job.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

Information doesn't kill you.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.