“All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.” …
Publications
David Bazan
“One of the interesting parts about Christianity, at least the way that I experienced it, was that you are in a sense responsible for this whole system of thought and …
Lord Byron
Even Gods must yield – Religions take their turn: ‘Twas Jove’s – ’tis Mahomet’s – and other Creeds Will rise with other years, till Man shall learn Vainly his incense soars, …
Johan August Strindberg
“Reason, too, was sin; the greatest of all sins, for it questioned God’s very existence, tried to understand what was not meant to be understood. Why it was not meant …
Beatrice Webb
“That part of the Englishman’s nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.” …
Roe v. Wade Issued
“This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District …
Helen H. Gardener
“I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world.” …
Fred Whitehead
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” …
Bill Maher
“When I hear from people that religion doesn’t hurt anything, I say, really? Well besides wars, the Crusades, the Inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of …