Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.