The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding — Plato Copy Share Image
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
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