The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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