Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from… — Ali A. Rizvi Copy Share Image
If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity… — John Courtney Murray Copy Share Image
Are the entire people equal before the god? I do not know. But all gods are equal before the human being, especially… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.… — Frank R. Zindler Copy Share Image
Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with… — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
