Quotes About Controversy

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.