From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion… — Joseph Leon Blau Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it… — H. L. Mencken 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
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
