The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

All religion is slavery.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.