I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.
Here in Spain we are all Catholics, even the atheists.
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?
The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.
The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.
Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me.
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.
Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.
I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
