GodAnon

“Men are given to worshipping malevolent gods, and that which is not cruel seems to them not worth their adoration.” - Anatole France (1844-1924), Crainquebille, 1901 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.” -C. Wright Mills, "A Pagan Sermon to the Christian Clergy," an address before the annual meeting of the Board of Evangelical and Social Service, United Church of Canada, Feb. 27, 1958 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“The impotence of God is infinite.” Anatole France (French writer, 1844-1924), Under the Rose, 1925 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Why do Christians fight science? Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Sin - an imaginary disease

"As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers." Quran (3:56) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Fighting*  (holy fighting in Allah's Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know. Quran 2:216 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"I hated having to go to church." Julia Child, quoted in "Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"And what I say here in general about the vanity and falsity of the religions of the world, I don’t say only about the foreign and pagan religions, which you already regard as false, but I say it as well about your Christian religion because, as a matter of fact, it is no less vain or less false than any other." Jean Meslier Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering