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"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.""
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."
"God has no religion."
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
"All religions have been made by men."
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper."
"Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives."
"Allah(God) is the greatest friend."
"My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter."
"Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love."
"Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life."
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . ."
"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian."
"The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust."
"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter."
"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion."
