Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and… — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
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