How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they,… — Helmut Schoeck 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 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
“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
It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb 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
“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
“We're surrounded by people who don’t make that distinction. If you say to them ‘there’s a monster living in my closet, you… — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
“The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.” — R. Joseph Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“The universe made no promises. It owes you nothing. It did not invite you to be born. It made no commitments that… — Tobias M. Kohl Copy Share Image
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe… — Anthony John Patrick Kenny Copy Share Image
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder Copy Share Image
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote Copy Share Image
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann Copy Share Image
“If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism… — Alejandro Amenábar Copy Share Image
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image