A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught!… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of… — Joseph Leon Blau Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
