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The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
What can I hope when all is right?
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
All religions have been made by men.
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.
Religion is a collective insanity.
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
Do I believe? God only knows.
Information doesn't kill you.
Thank God, I am still an atheist.
Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Christianity is such a silly religion.
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.
Communism begins where atheism begins.
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
Theology is Classified Superstition.
The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.
Atheism is the last word of theism.
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.
Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
Men create the gods after their own images.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.
I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
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