The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same… — Justin Villanueva Copy Share Image
“But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve… — Sean Kamali Copy Share Image
“We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions,… — Brian Krans Copy Share Image
“I chronicle my evolution from born again Christian to unabashed atheist and try to dispel some popular misconceptions about what atheism is.… — Alan Jeskin Copy Share Image
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what… — Rebecca Watson Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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