What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Further, it would take one of those impossible coincidences that the Modern Liberal relies on so heavily to explain how it is… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger… — William DeVries Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves… — Kirk J. Schneider Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer,… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
“The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is… — Violette Nakhjavani Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
“I have come to the conclusion that women believe marriage is proof that they have worth. It is the ultimate game of… — Kristen McMain Oaks Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
Ladies, just know that when you grow your hair too long, you got about two inches difference between really hot, sexy supermodel… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image