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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?

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

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.

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

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 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 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.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

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

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?

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.

I think it's a bit excessive.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

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

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.

It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

It is like confessing to a murder.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.