Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
“How come there's no commandment that says "Thou shalt not rape"? Did God ask Mary for consent before he put a baby… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“If you ask the religious person "What do you believe in?" he will tell you about one thing. But if you ask… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
“The science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“Suppose after all that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being forever with those we love and those… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
