Dickens

,

Charles

1812–1870

,
Freethinker

I cannot sit under a clergyman who addresses his congregation as though he had taken a return ticket to heaven and back.

attributed to,  as quoted in Huberman, The Quotable Atheist, p. 88

...on
Jesus

I put the New Testament among your books … when you were a child; because it is the best book that ever was or will be known in the world.

letter to Edward Dickens, September 26, 1868

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