“Humankind cannot bear very much reality. -TS Elliot, quoted by Groothuis” — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people have been stepping so long, they have forgotten what it's like to be stepped on.” — Lauren Lilly Conrad Copy Share Image
Practical atheism is when you act the same way as an atheist does even when you believe in God. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying; we would have had a three times more educated… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
“Just say it, she thought. Say what everyone in this bunker is thinking. Say what we all know to be true. The… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
“If God's love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question… — Charles Templeton Copy Share Image
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
