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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.
- Carl Jung
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably
because generally they are the same people.
- G. K. Chesterton
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid,
doctrinaire religion.
- Carl Sagan
No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the
crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.
- Steve Allen
Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
- Bernard Katz
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of
common sense.
- Chapman Cohen
[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of
obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- Mark Twain
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every
case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as The Dark Ages.
- Ruth Hurmence Green
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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