100+ Anti Religion Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.398

topic: Catholic Religion, Government, Anti Religion, Founding Fathers Religion, Founding Fathers Religious

quote with or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people steven weinberg Quotes

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

- Steven Weinberg

source: "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

topic: God, Atheist, People, Anti Religious, Theism

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.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Life, Atheist, Beer, Credulity, Just Believe

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Country, Religious, Religion, Our Founding Fathers, Deist

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Death, Atheist, Intelligence, Stupidity And Intelligence, Christian Church

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

- Richard Francis Burton

source: "The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night". Book by John Payne, Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13., 1885.

topic: Death, Religious, Atheist, Agnosticism, Religious Humor

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Truth, Freedom, Mistake, State Government, Deism

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

- Gene Roddenberry

source: "Can A Smart Person Believe in God?". Book by Michael Guillen, Chapter 7: "Hope Springs Eternal," p. 90, 2004.

topic: Death, Spiritual, Atheist, Anti Religious, Daily Atheist

A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.

- Matt Dillahunty

source: YouTube Channel "AtheisticLiberator"/"Matt Dillahunty: "I'm a skeptic" - The Atheist Experience #692", www.youtube.com. January 24, 2011.

topic: Reality, Doe, Manifest, Anti Religion

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Atheist, Religious Humor, Funny Atheist

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

- Anne Nicol Gaylor

source: "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

topic: Heart, Angel, Heaven, World Religions, Enslavement

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

- Mads Mikkelsen

topic: Believe, Wine, Men, Funny Religious, Odin

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.

- George Washington

topic: Christian, Religious, Differences, Denominations, Our Founding Fathers

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

- John Adams

topic: Religious, Insightful, Liberty, Anti Religious, Founding

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

- Richard Dawkins

source: "The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

topic: Death, Atheist, Learning, Atheistic, Religion In Society

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

- Glenn Danzig

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Christian, Kids, Thinking, Singer-songwriters, Extermination

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Believe, Ignorance, Theism, State Government

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

- Steven Weinberg

topic: Atheism, Looks, Invisible, Anti Religious, Subtle Atheist

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

- James Madison

topic: Religious, Ignorance, Pride, Shackles, Deism

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

- Edmond de Goncourt

topic: Atheist, If There Is A God, Atheism, Anti Religious, Atheistic

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Death, Witty, Atheist, Pseudoscience, Subtle Atheist

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

- Epicurus

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Atheist, Anti Religious, Theism

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

- George Washington

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Would Be, Our Founding Fathers, Christian Church

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

- John Adams

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.235

topic: Christian, Religious, Faith Religion, Christian Atheist, Christian Father

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Spiritual, Atheist, Fear, Totality, Daily Atheist

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

- Jon Stewart

source: "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

topic: Death, People, Religion, False Hope, Irreligion

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

- Catherine Fahringer

topic: Years, Mind, Church, Anti Christian, Christian Atheist

You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.