Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000. 00-2 hours labor $10. 00; knowing where to mark $9,990. 00.
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.
Theology is the science of the divine lie.
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.
Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.