FAMOUS QUOTES
- "The idea that a good God would send
people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me, the
ravings of insanity" (Luther Burbank)
- "Maybe this world is another planet's
hell" (Aldous Huxley)
- " If there is no Hell, a good many
preachers are obtaining money under false pretences
(Billy Sunday)
- "The trouble with born-again
Christians is that they are an even a bigger pain the
second time around" (Herb Caen)
- "I've always felt close to religion,
because it's a form of show business" ( Liberace)
- "Nobody has ever ventured to describe
a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have
described a day at the seaside" (George Bernard
Shaw)
- "I dont believe in God for the
same reason I dont believe in Mother
Goose"(Clarence Darrow)
- "One of the proofs of the immorality
of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also
believed that the world is flat" (Mark Twain)
- " The United States is not a
Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Muslim
nation" (George Washington)
- " The terrorist attacks on the twin
towers in New York City on September 11, 2001 were God's
punishment on America for tolerating feminists, gays and
lesbians and certain federal judges" (Jerry Falwell)
- " My choice for political adviser is
God who told me to run for president" (Pat
Robertson)
- "I am constantly amazed at how
readily people will give up their individual sovereignty
to the control of religious and political
demagogues
. They will accept the gibberish of a
Jerry Falwell or a Pat Robertson and turn them into
gods" (Dolan, p 122)
- " God does not want his priests to
engage in politics" (Pope John)
- " I can't believe in a God who saves
only those people who live in certain latitudes. If I had
happened to be born in Delhi I'd probably be Hindu, or in
Iran a Muslim" (Robert Runice, Archbisop of
Canterbury)
- " Faith has no merit where reason
supplies the truth" (Pope Gregory)
- " The men who took the cross, after
receiving communion, heartily devoted the day to
extermination of Jews
They killed about ten
thousand of them." (Lord Acton)
- "There are only three sins--causing
pain, causing fear, causing anguish. The rest is window
dressing"(Roger Caras)
- "Jesus, never in his lifetime,
considered himself anything but a Jew, and his followers
were defined as believers in the religion of the
Jews" (Robert Ballou)
- " If Christ were here now, there is
one thing he would not be--a Christian" (Mark Twain)
- " I wonder when Christianity will
have decayed sufficiently for the fact to be driven into
men's heads that pleasure is not hurtful nor pain
beneficial" (Somerset Maugham)
- "If God made us in his own image, we
have certainly returned the compliment"(Voltaire)
- " If God could make angel, why did he
bother with men?" (Dagobert Runes)
- " If an ox could paint a picture of
his God would look like an ox" (Baron Montesquieu)
- "Man
..cannot possibly make a
worm and yet will make gods by the dozens"(Eyquem de
Montaigne)
- "Every day people are staying away
from church and going back to God" (Lenny Bruce)
- "If a man wants to make a million
dollars, the best way would be to start his own
religion" (L.Ron Hubbard)
- "No one with any sense of humor ever
founded a religion" (Robert Ingersoll)
- "I got into this God-racket, boys, I
found it was the easiest way to make money"(Pierce
Berton)
- "If God exists
.is it
unreasonable to suppose He should give men some evidence
of His existence?"(Arnold Lunn)
- "If God did not exist, it would be
necessary to invent Him" (Voltaire)
- "If God existed, it would be
necessary to abolish Him" (Benjamin Tucker)
- "If you talk to God you are praying;
if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." Thomas
Szasz)
- "Not one wooden leg" (Max
Weigand, on noticing the pile of crutches)
- "It is immoral to baptize infants,
confirm adolescents, or impose a religious creed on young
people before they are able to consent." (Paul
Kurtz)
- "The day will come when the mystical
generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father,
in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable
of the generations of Minerva in the brain of
Jupiter."(Thomas Jefferson)
- "The Genesis story is just that the
one that happened to have been adopted by one particular
tribe
..It has no more special status than the
belief of a particular West African tribe that the world
was created from the excrement of ants." (Richard
Dawkins)
- "The time must come inevitably when
mankind shall surmount the imbecility of
religion."(H.L.Mencken)
- "It ain't those parts of the Bible
that I can't understand that bothers me; it's the parts I
do understand"(Mark Twain)
- "If the Bible had been written in
clear, modern English, its audience would have been
greatly reduced: incomprehensibly is the key. Confusion
is the sine qua non of any religion's
scriptures."(John Kenneth Galbraith)
- "The influence of the Bible is
directly proportional to the mental deficiency of those
who read it."(anonymous)
- "Both read the Bible day and night, /
But thou readest black were I read white" (William
Blake)
- "Whenever we read the obscene
stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and
tortuous , executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness
with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it
would be more consistent that we call it the word of a
demon than the word of God."(Thomas Paine)
- "I call Christianity the one great
curse
.the one immortal blemish upon the human
race." (Friedrch Nietzsche)
- "Religion is the venereal disease of
mankind" ( Henri de Montherlant)
- "If [Neanderthals ] cleaned up,
shaved, and dressed in business suits, they could
probably pass for television evangelists,"(Tim
Berra)
- "Everybody has to die, but I always
believed that an exception would be made in my
case."(William Saroyan)
Newton Joseph, Ph.D.