Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin 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
The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick 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
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the… — Karl Popper 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
Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies… — Mark Twain 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
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
