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"Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men." Harry Elmer Barnes, An Intellectual and Cultural History of the Western World (1937) p. 766, quoted
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." James A. Haught in "Honest Minds, Past and Present" Talks for History of Freethought conference Sept
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Letters vol. xcvi (1769), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live." Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool"
"Men who believe absurdities will commit atrocities."
"atheism is the voice of a few intelligent people."
"among theologians, heretics are those who are not backed with a sufficient array of battalions to render them orthodox."
"atheism is the voice of a few intelligent people."
"I have never made but one prayer to god, a very short one: 'the lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' and god granted it."
"on religion, many are destined to reason wrongly: other not to reason at all: and others to prosecute those who do reason."