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Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.

Dying is not a crime.

Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.

Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.