#religion

"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."

"Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ."

"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."

"Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano."

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

"Your way of life is sinful and wrong,"he said fiercely.Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear."

"You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned"

"ليس هذه الاديان الغربية المتنوعة إلا محاولة متجددة لبيان أن الإسلام أفضل وأبقى وأكثر إقناعاً !"

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."

"Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent."

"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."

"The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'."

"What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something."

"The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit."

"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."

"Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."

"What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is."