“Another important doctrine of the Christian religion, is the atonement supposed to have been made by the death and sufferings of the pretended Saviour of the world; and this is …
Publications
Abner Kneeland
“Universalists believe in a god which I do not; but believe that their god, with all his moral attributes, (aside from nature itself,) is nothing more than a chimera of …
Robert M. Sapolsky
“I was raised in an Orthodox household, and I was raised devoutly religious up until around age 13 or so. In my adolescent years, one of the defining actions in …
Thomas Hobbes
“Seeing there are no signs nor fruit of religion but in man only, there is no cause to doubt but that the seed of religion is also only in man.” …
Arthur Hailey
“”But quite suddenly, as I was reciting the Creed in a church in Cyprus, where we were stationed, I found myself saying ‘I don’t believe this any more.’ I lost …
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Jowett, the great translator of Plato and a famous Broad Church liberal in religion, reputedly prevented Swinburne’s expulsion for atheism from Oxford with the statement that he did not want …
Robert Scheer
“I was always raised with the idea there was an inherent value to human life — and [that] certainly was not based on religion. I think it was enhanced by …
David Cross
“I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I don’t believe in God.” …
Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke
“Reason, which we recognize as our highest and only law-giver, commands us to be free.” …
