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
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and… — Thomas Helwys Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence… Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
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