The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be… — Martin Booth Copy Share Image
To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found… — Hemant Mehta 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
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
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