I don’t want people to think I pray
“I don’t want to be identified as someone who, at any given moment of their life, gets down to his knees and seeks whatever.”
- Peter Jennings
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Religions make me sick
“I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.”
- Howard Stern
God did not create man
“The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song…We were not created by a deity. We created the deity in our image…”
- Phyllis Diller
Religion causes harm
“I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism. I have come to think that religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time.”
- Larry Flynt
Religion is so childish
“I don’t believe God is a single parent who writes books. I think that the people who think God wrote a book called The Bible are just childish. Religion is so childish…These myths, these silly little stories that they believe in fundamentally, that they take over this little space in Jerusalem where one guy flew up to heaven- no, no, this guy performed a sacrifice here a thousand million years ago. It’s like, ‘Who cares?’”
- Bill Maher
Man accomplished more than God
“[M]an has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.”
- Rod Steiger
Catholic values are dangerous.
“You can understand how people would hear some of these things [the idea of a community based on Catholic values] and be like, wow, this is really infringing on civil liberties and freedom of speech and right to privacy and all sorts of basic tenets that this country was founded on. Right?â€
- Katie Couric , March 3, 2006.
Religion doesn’t work.
“From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.”
- Elton John , November 11, 2006.
I don’t believe in God.
“No, of course I don’t [believe in God], and anyone who tells you that there is a God who makes His or Her presence known to him or her is hallucinating or not telling the truth.”
- Andy Rooney
Man is superior to God.
“[M]an has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.”
- Rod Steiger