So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. . . Religion is all bunk.
If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.
Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it. . . But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. . . If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible.
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
I figure if there is a God, he or she isn’t paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but copping a ride on our shoulders, watching what we do ever day. Seeing if we took this great big adventure called life and did something interesting with it.
If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.