On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to the national debt. But it's impossible for me to make an exact estimate, because the churches hide their wealth in every way they can - deliberate falsification as to the value of property, registering it under phony names… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
“Oh, one of the things that I am most proud of is that people can say, "I am an atheist," in the United States… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or England, but I didn't want to leave the United States, because for better or worse I'm an American, and this is my land; so I decided to fight it out on… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
My life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way by starting the school-prayer case. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a physical battle. I mean a man who would lay me, and when he was done, I'd say: "Oh, brother, I've been laid." Or if we had an argument, he would stand up and engage in intellectual combat and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
