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
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - -… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If it is the case that we are merely slaves to the natural processes computing our advanced fight and flight responses, then… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
“The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof.… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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