Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.' — William Blake Copy Share Image
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. — Nick Matzke Copy Share Image
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Neither give ear to the over-keen worshipers nor to the diehard atheists. They are both full of themselves and, therefore, they are… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
It's astonishiing that so many religious people are ignorant enough to think atheism is 'just another religion'. But at least it explains… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the… — Alexander Meiklejohn Copy Share Image
That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray? — Charles R. Moore Copy Share Image