“Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life — except religion. … Atheism strikes me as morally superior, as well as intellectually superior, to religion. …
Publications
Nella Larsen
“With the obscuring curtain of religion rent, she was able to look about her and see with shocked eyes this thing she had done to herself. She couldn’t, she thought …
Thomas Jefferson
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. … Do …
George Jacob Holyoake
“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 …
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.” …
