In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.