The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really… — Brent Yaciw 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
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
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
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain… — Justin Villanueva Copy Share Image
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“God is dead;1 but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu… — Periyār Copy Share Image
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
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