...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In the emerging picture of mankind in the universe, the future (if it exists) will surely entail discoveries about space and time… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion. — William Blake 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
I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature;… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.” — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms,… — Peter Loptson Copy Share Image
“If there was a God he reasoned it would have the same relation to us as we have to blades of grass.… — Tom Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image