Why I Am Not a Christian Quotes

“The objections to religion are of two sorts—intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to
suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they
are, and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian

“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion,
as organised in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian

“In the so-called ages of faith, when
men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian

“I do not think that the real reason why people
accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian

“Most people believe in God because they
have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the
main reason.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian