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
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat. — Alan Wolfe 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
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends. — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“atheism” ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somebody needs to start a restaurant called, 'Chick-Fil-Atheist' that's only open on Sunday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
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