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“Men are given to worshipping malevolent gods, and that which is not cruel seems to them not worth their adoration.” - Anatole France (1844-1924), Crainquebille, 1901 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.” -C. Wright Mills, "A Pagan Sermon to the Christian Clergy," an address before the annual meeting of the Board of Evangelical and Social Service, United Church of Canada, Feb. 27, 1958 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“The impotence of God is infinite.” Anatole France (French writer, 1844-1924), Under the Rose, 1925 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Why do Christians fight science? Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Sin - an imaginary disease

"As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers." Quran (3:56) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Fighting*  (holy fighting in Allah's Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know. Quran 2:216 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"I hated having to go to church." Julia Child, quoted in "Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"And what I say here in general about the vanity and falsity of the religions of the world, I don’t say only about the foreign and pagan religions, which you already regard as false, but I say it as well about your Christian religion because, as a matter of fact, it is no less vain or less false than any other." Jean Meslier Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"Know, then, my friends, that everything that is recited and practiced in the world for the cult and adoration of gods is nothing but errors, abuses, illusions, and impostures. All the laws and orders that are issued in the name and authority of God or the gods are really only human inventions…."  Jean Meslier Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, knowledge of nature is made for their destruction.” Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism, 1811 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Whosoever ... hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, or crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken ... He shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries. Leviticus 21:17-23 KJV Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed. Leviticus 20:15 NLT Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. Ephesians 6:5 NLT Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. Numbers 31:17-18 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Deuteronomy 25:11-12 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 23:19 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads. Leviticus 19:27 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. Leviticus 19:19 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering