“I endorse it. I think it was correct. Contrary to what many have said, it sought to outlaw neither prayer nor belief in God. In a pluralistic society such as …
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Julian Barnes
“It is a bizarre thought that in this presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House, we might have a black man in the White House, …
Auguste Comte
“Daily experience shows that the ordinary morality of religious men is not, at present, in spite of our intellectual anarchy, superior to that of the average of those who have …
Edgar Allan Poe
“Let us begin, then, at once, with that merest of words, ‘Infinity.’ This, like ‘God,’ ‘spirit,’ and some other expressions of which the equivalents exist in all languages, is by …
Niall Shanks
“Of God, the Devil and Darwin, we have really good scientific evidence for the existence of only Darwin.” …
James F. Crow
“My main personal reason for nonbelief is: Why would an all-powerful and especially benevolent creator permit so much sin and suffering?” …
A.A. Milne
“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the …
Montesquieu
“If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.” …