Atheism Quote by Edwin Gaustad

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our…

— William Bennett

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

— Ronald Reagan

“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to bud and…

— Kurt Andersen

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient…

— Hu Shih

I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the…

— Wesley Clark

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new…

— Tony Campolo

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name…

— Riane Eisler

“Second, some common interpretations of our shared past are badly in need of correction. Secular liberals who claim that the United States was built…

— Philip S Gorski

“The established religions no longer ask fundamental questions about our identity and our reason for living. Instead, they concentrate purely on a series of…

— Paulo Coelho

The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each…

— Max Heindel

All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.

— Jimmy Barnes