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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, “There’s just something about you that pisses me off.”