“Anything that overpowers logic and reason cannot be good.”
“Religion thrives on the feeling of guilt.”
“Whenever I see all around , I see nothing except atoms & molecules ”
“In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.”
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“I don t want to believe. I want to know.”
“Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests”
“Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.”
“I’ve a very different idea of love. And until my dying I refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture” The Plague”
“The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.”
“I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
“Religion has actually convinced people that there s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can t handle money!”
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
“If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he s an underachiever.”
“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”