“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
“There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.”
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”
“Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”
“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.”
“I'm religiously opposed to religion.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”
“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.”
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”