Entry 111

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Dickens

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.

Oscar Wilde

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb in a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson

The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

Thomas Paine

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Nietzsche

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron