If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. – Voltaire
God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain. – Author Unknown
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. – Ghose Aurobindo
Nowhere is there an account or portrait of Christ laughing… he is always stern, serious and as gloomy as a prison guard. Never does one see him laughing until tears appear in his eyes like the roly-poly squint-eyed Buddha guffawing with arms upraised. – Author Unknown
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. – Alfred North Whitehead
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. – Søren Kierkegaard, Time, 1946 December 16th
Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. – Andrew Lias
I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. – Author Unknown
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. – H.L. Mencken
On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking forty days to find a place to park. – Curtis McDougall
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. – Robert Ingersoll, quoted in Ingersoll the Magnificent
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver. – Robert G. Ingersoll
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. – Robert G. Ingersoll
Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all. – John Cumming, “Salvation,” sermon preached before the Queen, 1850 September 22nd
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. – Chapman Cohen
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there. – Bono
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. – Ed Howe
In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. – Stephen J. Gould
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw
