Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The Christian religion though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration unselfishness the only real religion.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever by any religion by any sect.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors and used as the framework to control their minds.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The more powerful and original a mind the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It's not surprising then they get bitter they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Religion is just mind control.

If religion were true its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.