Anti-Clericalism Quotes

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Let us strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest.

If you love god, burn a church.

The Catholic Church has always exploited the working classes…. Your religion I spit on as I do on all religions, -- on Orthodox, Jewish, Mohammedan, and the rest. There is no law here but Soviet Law and by that law you must die

The Bible would be cast into a bonfire, our holy worship changed into a dance of [French] Jacobin phrensy, our wives and daughters dishonored, and our sons converted into the disciples of Voltaire and the dragoons of Marat.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

I have wished to crush Rome that I might crush Christianity.

The pope is a detestable shoveling, the right Anti-Christ and general ambitious tyrant over all right principalities, and patron of the diabolical faith.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

More pigs less parsons!

I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

A Scottish Presbytery … agreeth as well with a monarch as God and the Devil … I give not a turd for your preaching.

I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.

The King of France is called the Most Christian King, but this does him an injustice, for he never did a Christian thing.... The Pope is called His Holiness but he is the biggest scoundrel on earth.

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.