I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.” — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them… — Yip Man Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
