Antireligion Quotes

“[A]ll worship of a divinity is a necrophilia.”

“There can be nothing more abominable than religion.”

“Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.”

“A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism.”

“As long as people continue to believe absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

“Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.”

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

“Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd.”

“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”

“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.”

“We must seize the evil in Germany by the root and tear it out, to make way for true socialism, for the new faith, for the new religion.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.”

“[A]ny religious idea, any idea of any God at all, any flirtation even with a God is the most inexpressible foulness … the most dangerous foulness, the most shameful ‘infection.’”

“In the ordinary moral universe … The good will do the best they can. The worst will do the worst they can. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.”

“It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.”

“We may summarize the Kalacakra tantra's perception of Islamic beliefs and practices as follows: from the Buddhist point of view Islam is demonic and perverse, a perfect anti-religion which is the antithesis of Buddhism.”

“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

“National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church,… That is my gospel.”