“Jesus was crucified for doing nothing And God is worshiped for even less.” — Porcupine Tree Copy Share Image
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[A] person is formed from a continuum of words and actions over time and cannot be reduced to a fixed “self” that… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world,… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not against god, it is against the religious establishment who use god they have never seen or heard from to… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In 1902, Marcellin P. Berthelot , often called the founder of modern organic chemistry, was one of France's most celebrated scientists—if not… — Robert K. Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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