So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.