The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea). — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of… — Adolf Hitler 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
Depending on your culture, you can make physician which treats you feel himself like a veterinarian. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science") — George Sterling Copy Share Image
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
“In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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