The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.
If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.
One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.