“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.” — Blaise Pascal
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion” — Abraham Lincoln
“Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.” — C.C. Colton
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” — Galileo Galilei
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” — Ralph Hodgson
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.” — David Hume
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” — Jonathan Swift
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. “ — George Bernard Shaw
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.” — George Santayana
“Those of little faith are of little hatred.” — Eric Hoffer
“The religion that is afraid of science, dishonors God and commits suicide.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” — Steven Weinberg
“I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord’s work.” — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 65
Excerpts from God Hates You, Hate Him Back; Making Sense of The Bible by by