When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible. — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
An Atheist need Proof from God that he is God! lol yes they special! They want God to come down from were… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.)… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a… — Hugh Elliot Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the… — Culbert Olson Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is… — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Copy Share Image
'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
“Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette. — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
