“Public prayer is not intended to promote religious values, but to enhance the authority of some churches and some political views over others. Similarly with the posting of the Ten …
Publications
Clara Bewick Colby
Guy de Maupassant
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.” …
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“It is inconceivable that the whole universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun.” …
Robert Taylor
“[Christianity] is a system of the grossest hypocrisy, a fashionable villainy, a licensed swindle, cheat, and trick.” “Go to church and chapel, you fools — listen to the parson, and …
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, knowledge of nature is made for their destruction.” …
Helen Thomas
“Atheists pay taxes, too.” …
Ethan Siegel
“[A]lthough it often takes a lifetime’s worth of work to understand how, everything that has ever happened in this Universe requires nothing more than the laws of nature to explain …
John T. Scopes
“Of course, it was impossible to teach biology without teaching evolution. But to the fundamentalists, evolution symbolized all that was repugnant. It was a threat to religious belief, they thought. …
