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Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

The atheist has no hope.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

The beast faith lives on its own dung.

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.