"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your
deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very
ugly." Victor Hugo
"Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage." Dennis
Potter
"Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the
incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable,
the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains." Robert G.
Ingersoll
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on
sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is
necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be
restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
Albert Einstein
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in
veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above
all, love of the truth." Henry Mencken
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than
reason and common sense." Francois Marie Arouet
(Voltaire)
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but
nearly all religions come from that hope." Robert G.
Ingersoll
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous
as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal
Bellarmine