Voltaire Quotes

I hope to see the day and witness the deed when an English Senate should disown the divinity of the Christian religion.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

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

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

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

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.