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Quotes About Criticism

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.
~ Deborah Tannen
Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture.
~ Geert Wilders
Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.
~ Jim Jefferies
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
~ Matthew Henry
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
~ Voltaire
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
~ Thomas Paine
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
~ Voltaire
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
~ C. S. Lewis
Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
~ Tacitus
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
~ H. L. Mencken
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
~ P.J. O'Rourke
The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
~ Thomas Jefferson
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
~ Bertrand Russell
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
~ H. L. Mencken
Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.
~ Henry de Montherlant
If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
~ Bertrand Russell