Religion
Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power
recognized as the creator and governor of the universe
What celebrities throughout the ages in Europe and America
thought of God & Christians?
Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know; Men with simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed make good Christians.
Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.
Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Theology is the kingdom of darkness ; Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
Baron de Montesquieu 1689-1755
Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
No kingdom has ever suffered as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ; If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides; History is full of religious wars ; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produce these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
Voltaire 1694-1778
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world; For 1700 years, the Christian sect has done nothing but harm; Christians have been the most intolerant of all men; Ehasez l’infâme! [crush the infamous thing – Christianity] ; Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people ; God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions ; Evil came into the world through the sin of Adam. If that idiot had not sinned, we should not have been afflicted with the smallpox, nor the itch, nor theology, nor the faith which alone can save us.; The word of God is the word of the priests ; the glory of god is the pride of the priests ; the will of god is the will of the priests ; to offend god is to offend the priests; to believe in god is to believe in all that the priests tell us.
Edward Gibbon 1737-1794
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. ; (John XXIII, 1414) The most serious charges were suppressed ; the Vicar of Christ (Pope John XXIII, 1414) was accused only of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest.)
Pierre Bayle 1647-1706
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him ; No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity
Daniel Defoe 1660-1731
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.
Frederik the Great 1712-1786
Frederik the Great (1712-1786)
Theologians are all alike .. Their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men’s consciences. They therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to unveil the truth.
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
John Milton 1608 – 1674
John Milton (1608-1674)
Romanism is less a religion than a priestly tyranny armed with the spoils of civil power which, on the pretext of religion, it hath seized against the command of Chist himself.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Priests can lie, and the mob believe, all over the world.
Thomas Paine 1737-1809
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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What is the New Testament teaches us ? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be maried ; and the belief of this debaucery is called faith; The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion) ; Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man. ; One good school master is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. The God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust) ; It has been 50 and 60 years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac.
James Madison 1751-1836
James Madison (1751-1836) During almost 15 centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
Napoléon Bonaparte 1769-1821
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
The Society of Jesus is the most dangerous of orders, and has done more mischief than all the others; Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion ; Priests have everywhen and everywhere introduced fraud and falsehood.
Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 1860
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
You may observe that faith and knowledge are related as the scales of a balance ; when the one goes up, the other goes down ; The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives in America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place) ; The Catholic religion is an order to obtain heaven by begging, because it would be too troublesome to earn it. The priest are the brokers for it) ; Any dogma, no matter how extravagantly absurd, inculcated in childhood, is sure to retain its hold for life.
John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
The most intolerant of churches, the Roman Catholic Church.
President Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other.
Charles Robert Darwin 1809-1882
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Science and Christ have nothing to do with each other. I do not believe that any revelation has ever been made.
Charles Dickens 1812-1870
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
I believe the dissemination of Catholicity to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. Missionaries are perfect nuisances, and leave every place worse than they found it.
TH Huxley 1825-1895
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
The dogma of infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible. The ecclesiastical system is the deadly enemy of science. Evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural interventions.
(Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft. It is true, I deny an incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.
Robert G. Ingersoll 1833-1899
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
What I want for Christmas ? I would have the pope throw away his tiara, take off his sacred vestments, and admit that he is not acting for god - is not infallible - but is just an ordinary Italian. I would have all the cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests admit that they know nothing about theology, nothing about hell or heaven, nothing about the destiny of the human race, nothing about devils and ghosts, gods or angels. I would like to see the whole world free - free from injustice - free from superstition. One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. For many centuries, the sword and the cross were allies. Together they attacked the rights of man. They defended each other.) If Christianity were only stupid and unscientific, if its god were ignorant and kind, if it promised eternal joy to believers, and if the believers practiced the forgiveness they teach, for one I should let the faith alone. But there is another side to Christianity. It is not only stupid, but malicious. It is not only unscientific, but it is heartless. Its god is not only ignorant, but infinitely cruel. It not only promises the faithful an eternal reward, but declares that nearly all of the children of men, imprisoned in the dungeons of god will suffer eternal pain. This is the savagery of Christianity.)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899 ) : What is the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism? and which one is better ? Protestantism is better because it is less Catholic, but the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is only the difference between an alligator and a crocodile .
Friedrich Nietzche 1844-1900
Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900)
God is dead. One should not go to church if one wants to breathe pure air.
Sir James Paget, 1814-1899
Sir James Paget (1814-1899)
I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.)
Alexandre Dumas 1802-1870
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Catholics and Protestants, while engaging in burning and murdering each other, could cooperate in enslaving their black brethen.
Victor Hugo 1802-1885
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
When you tell me that your deity made you in his own image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. There is in every village a torch: the schoolmaster - and an extinguisher: the parson.) .
EMILE ZOLA 1840-1902
Émile Zola (1840-1902)
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
Mikhail Bakunin, 1814 1876
Mikhail A. Bakunin (1814-1876)
Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason. Theology is the science of the divine lie.
William E. H. Lecky (1838-1903)
William E. H. Lecky (1838-1903),
Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities. Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution is the result.
August Bebel, 1840 1913
August Bebel (1840-1913)
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and of civilization. It has kept mankind in chains.
Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807-1882
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. The priest is the personification of falsehood. The Catholic Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. The Catholic Church so far has been the implacable enemy of all freedom of thought.
George Santayana 1863-1952
George Santayana (1863-1952)
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindles wars, and nursed furious hatred and ambitions. It sanctified extermination and tyranny.
Bertrand Russell - 1872-1970
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Why I Am Not A Christian: My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures
Henry Louis Mencken 1880-1956
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. Theology: an effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
Edgar Lee Masters 1869-1950
Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
HG Wells 1866-1946
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
The most evil thing in the world today is the Roman Catholic Church.
Culbert L. Olson Democrat 1939-1943
Culbert Olson, Thống đốc bang California, 1938-1943
I don’t see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it’s the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbaric people.
Steve Allen 1921 – 2000
Steve Allen (1921 -2000 )
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely history, an obvious error, an historical impossibility.. ; An atheist does not hate God; he simply is one who is unable to believce that a God exist ; The Bible has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths ; It was only when I finally undertook to read the Bible through from beginning to end that I perceived that its depiction of the Lord God was actually that of a monstrous, vengeful tyrant, far exceeding in bloodthirstiness and insane savagery the depredations of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, or any mass murderer of ancient or modern history.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate.. Choose science
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