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Organized Christianity has probably done
more to retard the ideals that were its founders' than any
other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne
Christendom has done away with Christianity
without being quite aware of it.
Soren Kierkegaard
The total absence of humor from the Bible
is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead
To listen to some devout people, one would
imagine that God never laughs.
Ghose Aurobindo
God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.
If God has created us in His image, we have
more than returned the compliment.
Voltaire
On the sixth day God created man. On the
seventh day, man returned the favor.
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his
martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
Prat de Lamartine
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized
religion.
Robert G. Ingersoll
In religion and politics, people's beliefs
and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand,
and without examination.
Mark Twain
Most people are bothered by those passages
of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that
bother me are those I do understand.
Mark Twain
In general, the churches, visited by me often
on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that
billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without
quenching it.
John Updike
What has been the effect of religious coercion?
To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
Thomas Jefferson
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