1575: Baron d’Holbach Quotes on God and Atheism (“Système de la nature”)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
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Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/27
What are d’Holbach’s most-cited quotes on God from that work and “Christianity Unveiled”?
1766: “God repents having peopled the earth, and he finds it easier to drown and destroy the human race, than to change their hearts.”
1766: “Such is the faithful history of the God, on whom the foundation of the Christian religion is laid.”
1766: “This unchangeable God is alternately agitated by anger and love, revenge and pity, benevolence and fury.”
1766: “If nothing be due from God to his creatures, how can any thing be due from them to him?”
1766: “How can goodness be an attribute of a God, who has created most of the human race only to damn them eternally?”
1770: “If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.”
1770: “Shall we be more instructed, when every time we behold an effect of which we are not in a capacity to develop the cause, we may idly say, this effect is produced by the power, by the will of God?”
1770: “Undoubtedly it is the great Cause of causes must have produced every thing; but is it not lessening the true dignity of the Divinity, to introduce him as interfering in every operation of nature; nay, in every action of so insignificant a creature as man?”
1770: “Do we, in fact, pay any kind of adoration to this being, by thus bringing him forth on every trifling occasion, to solve the difficulties ignorance throws in our way?”
1770: “It is impossible for man… to form to himself a correct idea… of incorporeity; of a substance without extent, acting upon nature, which is corporeal… It is equally impossible for man to have any clear, decided idea of perfection, of infinity, of immensity, and other theological attributes.”
1772: “All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.”
1772: “The principles of every religion are founded upon the idea of a GOD. Now, it is impossible to have true ideas of a being, who acts upon none of our senses.”
1772: “To say, that God is the author of the phenomena of nature, is it not to attribute them to an occult cause? What is God? What is a spirit? They are causes of which we have no idea.”
1772: “Divines every where exclaim, that God is infinitely just; but that his justice is not the justice of man… How can we receive for our model a being, whose divine perfections are precisely the reverse of human?”
1772: “God is the author of all; and yet, we are assured that evil does not come from God. Whence then does it come? From man. But, who made man? God. Evil then comes from God.”
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