The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another. — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The star of the Magi which pointed so unerringly to the cradle of Christ points not less unerringly to one of the… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image