It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
“Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins 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
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little… — Tommy Smothers Copy Share Image
There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.” — Tai Solarin Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." ( Notebooks )” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.' — William Blake Copy Share Image
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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