Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Atheism
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
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But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.
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It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.
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Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.
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Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
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The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
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We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
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The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
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Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
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A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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