E. Haldeman-Julius famous quotes

03-28-2025

We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Practice #Atheism #Influence
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Race #Interesting #Leisure
Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Character #Our Words #Fiction
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Atheist #Church #Answers
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Believe #Atheism #Would Be
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Strong #Taken #Mean
Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Attitude #Exercise #Men
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Men #Atheism #Superstitions
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Men #Atheism #Slave
As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Eye #Men #Atheism
A good title is a work of a genius!
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Titles #Genius
"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Men #Support #Church
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Civilization #Cities #Firsts
Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Mean #Church #Systematic
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#People #Doe #World
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Wise #Men #Tyrants

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