“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science; because religion lies and science can’t.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. — John Marburger Copy Share Image
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Every time someone reaches out to you, even if it's to point out your sin and they seem to be judging you,… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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