To persecute Makes a faith hated, and is furthermore No perfect witness of a perfect faith In him who persecutes.

Faith or religion should not be respected to the extent that they peddle lies and deception, and fuel division, and hatred and intolerance.

People having religions is an insult to the universe.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

It must now be added that these attempts at proof not only fail of their purpose, and so do no good to religion, but that they positively degrade it.

If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.

[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]

Any ethics that needs religion is bad ethics, and any religion that tries to do so is bad religion. Of course, there are plenty of both around.

Religion has always persecuted science.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

"Propagation of other religions is prohibited. Even construction of any place of worship is prohibited," he said.

On religion, many are destined to reason wrongly; others not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.

condemning religions as a whole would be like wanting to destroy a garden because weeds have disfigured it.

Persecution by David Limbaugh about the various ways that Christians were discriminated against.