Christopher Hitchens - Jonathan Miller - Sam Harris - Robert A Heinlein - Robert Anton Wilson - Terry Eagleton - H L Mencken - Richard Dawkins - John Polkinghorne - Stephen Hawking - Robert G Ingersoll - Jose Bergamin - Bill Moyers - Thomas Paine - Alan Turing -
Most of the tyrannies under which humans have laboured in the past and continue to labour under in the present have in their essence been theocratic. Christopher Hitchens
Theology, modern or otherwise, can be maddeningly obscure. Jonathan Miller, The Atheism Tapes, Denys Turner, BBC 2004
Theology is ignorance with wings. Sam Harris
I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. But we cannot always do what is absolutely best. Those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. Truth advances, and error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step. Thomas Jefferson
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Robert A Heinlein
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. Robert A Heinlein
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. Robert Anton Wilson
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. Terry Eagleton
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. H L Mencken
What has ‘theology’ ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has ‘theology’ ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that ‘theology’ is a subject at all? Richard Dawkins
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. John Polkinghorne
Theology is unnecessary. Stephen Hawking
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. Robert Green Ingersoll
Theology is the logic of the Devil. Jose Bergamin
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Bill Moyers
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Thomas Paine
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950