Atheism Quote by Charles Bradlaugh Download Open image “Liberty's chief foe is theology.” — Charles Bradlaugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Chiefs Foe Liberty Positive atheism Theology
“True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.” — Ray Hughes Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a spirit sent out from God and, like its great Author, is no respecter of persons.” — James Daley Copy Share Image
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“they who were the preachers of the truth and the apostles of liberty termed no one else God, or named him Lord, except the… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government? — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share
On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all?… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
