The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s what religion is: a god ersatz rather than his affirmation.” — Marcus Steinweg Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Why did God set it up like this?” Rachel asked. “With them as masters and us as slaves?” “There is no God,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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