A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Theology is ignorance with wings.
At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course,...
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, le...
Nothing in Christianity is original.
God save us from religion.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest...
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why the...
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, d...
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no l...
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