The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else.… — William Herndon Copy Share Image
It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
The argument from design stands or falls on whether it can be demonstrated that some aspect of the universe such as its… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it… — H. J Eckenrode 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
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest… — Richard Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
“What sort of god could be excused the actions of his followers? Didn’t it, in a way, infantilise the deity to say… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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