They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved.
Chief Pontiac
#502
#474
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morle
#435
Tears on the mausoleum floor,
blood stains the Colosseum doors
Lies on the lips of a priest,
Thanksgiving disguised as a feast
Kayne West ft.. Frank Ocean & Jay-Z, No Church in the Wild
#416
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, “Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down. Amen!”. If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.
Dan Barker
#407
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Seneca the Younger
#367
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make happy, fails to make good, fails to make wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of nearly two thousand years ago.
Harriet Martineau
#366
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
#342
From the dawn of civilisation onwards crowds have always undergone the influence of illusions. It is to the creators of illusions that they have raised more temples, statues, and altars then to any other class of men.
Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd
#292
I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski
