It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.