Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The negative side of democracy is that the position of ideological minorities is not in power. However, the ideological minorities are often… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist. — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility. — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
“Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
No creature but human has practiced such a meaningless cause as looking for the meaning of life. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
