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Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.

Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov'd, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten'd Conscience.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to extracting from them such information as is relevant to our purpose.

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Death pays all debts.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting observations.....Nevertheless, the history of science shows that new observations and theories can eventually prevail.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

Do I believe? God only knows.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Do not make gods in your own images.

Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Do what you say you will do.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

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. 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.

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