Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way: What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and… — John W. Loftus Copy Share Image
These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
“Boom!” The thunder of a massive explosion rolled across the settlement. Maria’s sobbing came from the bedroom. Irina ran to her daughter.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow," Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother's words, "told me… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints,… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist,… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your stories were real I would scream my dissolution amongst the searching soul; if wishes were not so unreal I would… — Marc Broude Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
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