Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.