Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their mouths and walk out the… — Jefferson Bethke Copy Share Image
It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches… — Gregory Wallace Campbell Copy Share Image
The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“And one thing you would never want to do is keep your children away from any Tree of Knowledge. How could you… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate… When… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
“The late Mr. David Hume , in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason;… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be… — Jinasena Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.” — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image