Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is denial - at once full of hope and full of fear - of the vastitude of human ignorance.

"Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain — from cosmology to psychology to economics — has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture.

Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music."

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

every religion preaches the truth of propositions for which it has no evidence.

Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers is condemned to inherit the superstitions and tribal hatreds of its predecessors.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

The standard-brand religions [...] are — as now practiced — like exhausted mines: very hard to dig. With some exceptions not too easily found, their ideas about man and the world, their imagery, their rites, and their notions of the good life don't seem to fit in with the universe as we now know it, or with a human world that is changing so rapidly that much of what one learns in school is already obsolete on graduation day.

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

Faith-based religion must suffer the same slide into obsolescence

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

All religions are true but none are literal.