“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the …
Publications
Erich Fromm
“If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and …
William Smith
“In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the Earth — and a central plank of …
Richard Proctor
“[H]e became a student at King’s College, where he came out either at or close to the head of the honours list in Theology, a subject for which he was …
Stephen Sondheim
“It’s called flowers wilt / It’s called apples rot / It’s called thieves get rich / And saints get shot / It’s called God don’t answer prayers a lot / …
William Shatner
“My belief system is that when this is over, it’s over. That you don’t look down from heaven and wait for your loved ones to join you.” …
Stephen Pearl Andrews
“I reject and repudiate the interference of the State, precisely as I do the interference of the Church.” …
M.N. Roy
“The realization of the possibility of a secular rational morality opens up a new perspective before the modern world. … It must be realized that human existence is self-contained and …
Benito Juárez
“Priests of any cult who, abusing their ministry, excite hate or disrespect for our laws, our government, or its rights, will be punished by three years’ imprisonment or deportation.” …