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"If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of."
"The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence."
"Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons."
"Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?"
"Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong."
"To God's own heart be true."
"If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing."
"I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more."
"Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it."
"To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds."
"Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first."
"The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape."
"Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan."
"Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion."
"No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted."
"No child's behind left."
"According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle."
"I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden."
"This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return."
"No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle."
