The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now? — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.” — Tai Solarin Copy Share Image
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational… — Karen Armstrong 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
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world,… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a… — Madison Arnold Copy Share Image
“[T]he changing, functional, causal, and conditioned world, present to ordinary sensory and mental experience, was what was ultimately real. To be real… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“To understand why I jumped from the Mormon wagon train requires an understanding of what Mormons are and how they think. While… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
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