In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to… — William Rainey Harper Copy Share Image
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the… — George William Foote Copy Share Image
This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
“Christians think they're oppressed when they're not allowed to oppress others.” — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Who has stopped worshiping us?" "Everyone in the old world," April said little harshly. "But of course they have, young woman. We… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know. — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
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Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“if you are suffering without a belief in God, then there is not a lot of hope that your pain has any… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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