“Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for …
Publications
Thomas Beddoes
“Man created a God, a Heaven and a Hell.” …
Stanley Donen
“Because of my mother I never became religious. I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in God. I never did.” …
Mattie Parry Krekel
Henry Clay
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” …
Jon Krakauer
“All religious belief is a function of non-rational faith, and faith by its very definition tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism.” …
Henry “Hank” Zumach
“I gradually came to realize that many of the things I was taught during five years attending Catholic schools did not make any logical sense, and were, in fact, contrary …
George E. Macdonald
“The [Catholic] Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.” …
Leo Rosten
“The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.” …
