Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The chimps love holidays - in fact Tatu actually anticipates them and asks about them. — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins 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 church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Glenn Archer Copy Share Image
Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity,… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself. — John Adams Copy Share Image
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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