Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like… — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
“Your religious beliefs typically depend on the community in which you were raised or live. The spiritual experiences of people in ancient… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.'… — Don Adams Copy Share Image
Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people. — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be… — John Howard Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
