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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old
Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of
the New, he would be insane.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike
your Christ.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.
- Wendy Kaminer
The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible
story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark,
did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
- Judith Hayes
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin
paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as
good a smoke as I ever tasted.
- Brendan Behan
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized
that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
- Emo Philips
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
- Mark Twain
For centuries, Theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the
not worth knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks
to us we're schizophrenic?
- Lily Tomlin
In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there
was still nothing but everybody could see it.
- Dave Thomas
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down
on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the
thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses
me off.
- Stephen King
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the
audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God
of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
- Quentin Crisp
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the
cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
- Pablo Picasso
If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false
pretences.
- William Sunday
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
- Fulton Sheen
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the
roller of an electric typewriter?
- Woody Allen
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of
intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority
more closely than in some others.
- Bertrand Russell
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless,
so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven,
though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
- George Bernard Shaw
God always has another custard pie up His sleeve.
- Lynn Redgrave
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the
dead.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst
that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen
Christian ethics are seldom found save in the philosophy of some unbeliever.
- Broun Heywood
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
- Benito Mussolini
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylums shows that faith does not prove
anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
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