Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do… — Marco Polo Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
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