Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Glenn Archer Copy Share Image
I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. 'Forgive us our sins' means "Let us continue in our iniquity."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
