Mark Twain Quotes About Atheist
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
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In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
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