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The god of The Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniac, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

- Richard Dawkins

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there are no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.
- Bertrand Russell

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen

In time, the Deity perceived that Death was a mistake; a mistake in that it was insufficient; insufficient for the reason that while it was an admirable agent for inflicting misery on the survivor, it allowed the dead person himself to escape from all further persecution in the blessed refuge of the grave. This was not satisfactory. A way must be contrived to pursue the dead beyond the tomb.
- Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth

I have observed that belief in the goodness of God is inversely proportional to the evidence. When there is no evidence for it at all, people believe it, and when things are going well and you might believe it, they don't. So I think that if people solve their social problems religion will die out.
- Bertrand Russell

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

- William Butler Yeats

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

- Mahatma Gandhi

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Bernard Berenson