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"Religion is a smile on a dog."

Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians - "What I am"


Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address


George Bernard Shaw

Even the present life does not exist, How could the after-life exist?
--(Translated from Thai) Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. (Tawit Chitsomboon)

A fanatic is someone who does what he knows that God would do if God knew the facts of the case. (Bob Smart)

Faith, n.

Ambroise Bierce

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Martin Luther

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

Bertrand Russell


Albert Einstein


Jesus, Matthew 10:34

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thomas Paine

Religionists mistake shit for food and then grin at me while they are eating.

Greg Weeks (

"In a dead religion there are no more heresies"

Andre Suares

"If God wanted to hide, he would hide in human beings because that is the last place we would look."


- Mother Teresa

Jesus pointed the way - but many of His followers are staring at His finger. (Karen Mc Farlin)

"If you miss someone too much you turn into them...
though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church"

Robyn Hitchcock, 12bar 27/8/96 (Source: Jonathan Turner)

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that 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

Is he both able and willing? Then whence commeth evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? When why call him god?


One kills a man, one is an assassin;
One kills millions, one is a conquerer;
One kills everybody, one is a god.

Jean Rostand

See also: My Collected Quotes
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