Atheism Quote by Edward Gibbon

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

“Now Brutus had deliberately assumed a mask to hide his true character.  When he learned of the murder by Tarquin of the Roman aristocrats,…

— Livy

Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by…

— Tacitus

Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of…

— Edward Gibbon

Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that this thing…

— Greg Gilbert

“It was a wise policy in that false prophet, Alexander, who though now forgotten, was once so famous, to lay the first scene of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There, publicly throwing off the mask under which he had hitherto concealed his real character and feelings, he made a speech painting in vivid…

— Livy

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons…

— Joseph Addison

“Could anything be more improbable than that a religion following a man born of an unwed mother among a widely despised people in an…

— Everett Ferguson

“Roman culture was marked by a reluctance ever entirely to discard its past practices, tending instead to preserve all kinds of ‘fossils’ – in…

— Mary Beard

“Constantine appointed his political ally Eusebius, the head of the Church at Caesarea in Palestine, to draft a compromise settlement. What Eusebius came up…

— Graham Phillips