The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us,… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
