“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” …
Publications
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 …
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 …
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
“Our modern instinct condemns still more strongly a morality which proclaims that the benevolent sentiments are foreign to our nature; which so little understands the dignity of labor as to …
King Jr., Martin Luther (Federal Holiday)
“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 …
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 …
