The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either `explained,` or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory
Robert Green Ingersoll
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church`s agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism
Michael Scott Horton
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
Bridget Willard
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church`s greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky
I`m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church
Andrew Trowbridge
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches
St. Thomas Aquinas
