Et ego dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam, et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam.

Beati pauperes spiritu, sed dives in aurum et argentum.                                                        Iesu Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum

Testamenti ad Fidem

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. – Ferdinand Magellan

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. – Blaise Pascal

If we believe in absurdities we shall commit atrocities.                                   – François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.                     – Thomas Jefferson

Religion exists to keep the poor from murdering the rich.                             – Napoleon Bonaparte

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry. – Edgar Allan Poe

Religion . . . is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine. – Charles Darwin

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.                               – Abraham Lincoln

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so. – Mark Twain

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul . . . It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living . . . our dread of coming to an end. – Thomas Edison

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. – Sigmund Freud

I cannot believe the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism.     – Albert Einstein

By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.                               – Charlie Chaplin

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. – Kurt Vonnegut

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
 – Christopher Hitchens