I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity,… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat,… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting… — Earl Doherty Copy Share Image
No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Praying to the Almighty, Javert?” called a voice, and Javert opened his eyes to see Rousseau and Leclerc smirking at him. Javert… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“No, not at all. I’m an atheist. You could say that I’m agnostic, but that’s just a certain kind of atheist (laughs).… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken, I live with my own fragile hopes and sudden rising despair. Now… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted?… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
“Self talk and self prayer: When you audible the first and correctly interpret, the white coats correct you in a nuthouse. When… — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“Number three: Stay away from the church. In the battle over science vs. religion, science offers credible evidence for all the serious… — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
