Religion Quotes: I have recently been examining all known superstitions of world, and do not find in our particular superstition, “Christianity”, one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.” Thomas Jefferson “I believe religion, generally speaking, has been curse to mankind.” H. L. Mencken “Man is only animal that has true Religion, several of them. He is only animal that loves neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn’t straight. Man has made graveyard of globe in trying his best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.” Mark Twain “There was time when religion ruled world. It is known as Dark Ages.” Ruth Hurmence Green “Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.” George Washington “For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning formulas of their faith. Earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause.” Felix Adler “More wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history.” Charles Kimball “Religion is brainchild of fear and parent of cruelty. Greatest evils inflicted on humankind are perpetrated not by pleasure seekers, or those who are amoral, but by fervent devotees of religion.” Emmanuel Kofi Mensah “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal “As editor of largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily and amazed by frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is nearly universal pattern, undercutting common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.” James Haught “man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has soul that isn’t worth damn.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. “Christianity is most ridiculous, most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected world.” Voltaire “Christian theology is one of greatest disasters of human race.” Alfred North Whitehead “We have become so accustomed to religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which teaching of Christian church is permeated.” Leo Tolstoy “I call Christianity one great curse, one great intrinsic depravity, and one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough. I call it one immortal blemish on human race.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like hound it tracked very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.” George Santayana “There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money grabbing, and predatory. Ours is terrible religion. Fleets of world could swim in spacious comfort in innocent blood it has spilled.” Mark Twain “Careful student of history will discover Christianity has been of little value in advancing civilization, but has done great deal toward retarding it.” Matilda Joslyn Gage “You find as you look around world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in criminal law, every step toward diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in world, has been consistently opposed by organized churches of world. Christian religion has been principal enemy of moral progress in world.” Bertrand Russell “When churches ruled society, human drama encompassed: (a) slavery; (b) cruel subjection of women; (c) most savage forms of legal punishment; (d) absurd belief that kings ruled by divine right; (e) daily imposition of physical abuse; (f) heartless sufferings of poor; as well as (g) ethnic cleansing’ wars between rival religions, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, and countless other daily imposed moral outrages. It was free thinking, challenging work by people of conscience, who had to defy religious and political status quo that brought us out of darkness.” Steve Allen “There was time when I believed in story and scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was Devil. Suddenly light broke through and I knew this God was lie. For indeed it is silly story, and each generation swallows it with greater difficulty. Why do people go on pretending about Christianity?” H. G. Wells “Religion is not hero of day, but zero. Man has asked for truth and Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and Church has given him Bible.” Marilla M. Ricker
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