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This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.