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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone but only by those who are qualified to understand them with informed intelligence. The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted.

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

The new atheism as an old atheism, except it's much more aggressive. The new atheism wants to destroy religion. That's a very different thing. The arguments are not new, it's the aggression that's new.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

Then why did you tell me?

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God. God shows himself by allowing man to establish truth.

The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.