With soap, baptism is a good thing.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.