Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Zagreus was the son of Zeus. He was slain by the Titans, buried at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and rose from… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. — John Updike Copy Share Image
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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