Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. — James Madison Copy Share Image
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? — James Madison Copy Share Image
A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United… — Edmund Randolph Copy Share Image
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual,… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The nature of atheism merits clarification on two further points which involve less common ideas about theism. The first involves the idea… — Austin Cline Copy Share Image
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
