“The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will constantly look to disprove… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -… — Jacob Applebaum Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical… — David Craig Copy Share Image
Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“Mankind's most dangerous enemy is the human imagination. What their minds can imagine is far more malicious than the deepest furnaces of… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity… The law gives me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“Interesting Avil, the priests and the acolytes of the various religions and temples of Torea build their whole lives on a lie.… — Martyn Stanley Copy Share Image
“On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so… — Jeremy Shearmur Copy Share Image
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
![“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or…” quote by David Craig](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/df6/david-craig-23078_atheism_john-hodgson-can-describe-richard-dawkin_2552152.jpg)
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