H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

I don’t want to offend anyone of faith, but I think that science has some more compelling explanation than a divine creator

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

The absurd is sin without God.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.