Steve King Quotes

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People who believe in God, simply acknowledge the existence of a Higher Power. People who believe God believe Him enough to do what He says.

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were Baptist, I knew there were others who felt God was going to send them to hell for any little thing, but not me.

Christianity is such a silly religion.