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... inventions and purely human institutions.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

I regret my disbelief in God.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

I think it's a bit excessive.

I think I stand where that man stands.

I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.