God Is Not Great Quotes

“Religion has run out of justifications.”

“Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.”

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”

“Children who have felt cruelty know very well how to inflict it.”

“All postures of submission and surrender should be part of our prehistory.”

“I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.”

“If Jesus could heal a blind person he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness?”

“Millions of people would have mindlessly starved to death if his advice had been followed.”

“One may choose to call that "god" even if one does not know the precise nature of the first cause.”

“Why, if God was the creator of all things, were we supposed to "praise" him for what came naturally?”

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“Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come "first."”

“It is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than Nazis or Stalinists.”

“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.”

“If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”

“Like many but not all of Islam’s principal sites, Mecca is closed to unbelievers, which somewhat contradicts its claim to universality.”

“As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.”

“To believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.”

“Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.”

“Those who desire to certify miracles may wish to say that such recoveries have no "natural" explanation. But this does not at all mean that there is therefore a "supernatural" one.”