“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their mouths and walk out the… — Jefferson Bethke Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches… — Gregory Wallace Campbell Copy Share Image
Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all… — Rick Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can… — Baron d'Holbach 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
The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East… The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled… This confrontation is willed by God,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
