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Heathen Quotes |
Me"I see little divinity about them or you. You talk to me of Christianity when you are in the act of hanging your enemies. Was there ever such blasphemous nonsense!" "All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them." "Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity." "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." "There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject." "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means." "Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg." "No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus." "It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief." "Beware of the man whose God is in the skies." "What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that." "All great truths begin as blasphemies." "Martyrdom is the only way in which a person with no ability can become great." "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." "We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession." "There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe." "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." "We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies." "What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for scepticism and activity." "You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out." "The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last." "The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians." "The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it." "The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work." |
"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass." Senator Barry Goldwater |
"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? |
George Bernard Shaw |
If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!" |