Honorary Knight Major
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."
What I got in Sunday School was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves grovelling before a Being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.
Faith is defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Puritanism is jealousy wearing a halo.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
Say what you like about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant truth that there are only ten of them.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the same extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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