Misc. Free Thinkers' Quotes

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

-Frank Lloyd Wright

Christian: I'll pray for you.

Atheist: Then I'll think for both of us.

-Frank Lloyd Wright

"In this “sacred” book of family scandals we find filth, sex orgies, cannibalism, atrocities, sex perversions, incest, bloody violence unparalleled in any other chronicle in all the literature of the world. Fortunately, not one-third of the human family has ever heard of the Christian Bible; not one-tenth of the Christians have ever read it, and no two who have read it agree as to its meaning. Won’t you help get this book out of the hands of our children, out of decent homes, and out of hotel and motel rooms? "

-Frank C. Hughes

"Is god willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?"

-Epicurus

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

-Benjamin Franklin

"No kingdom has ever suffered as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ."

-Baron de Montesquieu

"The death of dogma is the birth of morality."

- Immanuel Kant

"Religion is a mere question of geography."

-Edward Gibbon

"Christ was only crucified once, and for a few hours. Think of the thousands he has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

-Samuel Butler

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

-Havelock Ellis

"Christianity teaches you to love your enemies. If you love your enemies, what value does that place on love?"

-Marilyn Manson
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