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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. 

                           Isaac Asimov

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white

                            Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Our earth is degenerate in these latter days.  There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end.  Bribery and corruption are common,   Children no longer obey their parents.  Every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world evidently is approaching.

                            Assyrian tablet circa 2800 BCE

The Past is prologue and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.

                            Francis Bacon

The rudiments of historical scholarship and scientific research when applied to a study of the Bible make it obvious that there is not the slightest ground for continuing the widely held notion of "divine inspiration". This being the case, one can only form a rational estimate of the validity of the Bible through judging it as a strictly secular product, i.e., a human creation. Once this is done the Bible’s conventional pretensions are enormously deflated if not totally decimated.

                            Harry E. Barnes

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.

                            Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615

Worse than all other mean acts are those performed by hypocrites under the cloak of purity and vanity.

                            D. M. Bennett

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

                            Nathaniel Branden

Faith is not needed where certainty exists.

                            Betty Brogaard              

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of lunacy.

                            David Brooks

Christianity ranks as the most colossal failure in the history of western civilization. It has preached peace, love, and justice for almost 2000 years, yet we are as far from those worthy goals today as when Christianity began.

                            Louis W. Cable

As our dear Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, said when they nailed him to the cross. "While it may be true that the early bird gathereth no moss, tiz the rolling stone which getteth the worm."

                            Louis W. Cable

The one thing that Christianity fears more than anything else is truth.

                            Louis W. Cable

Predestination we call the eternal decree of God whereby he has determined with himself what he wills to become of every man; to some eternal life and to some eternal damnation is foreordained.... Even infants bring their damnation with them.

                            John Calvin

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.

                            Joseph Campbell

Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. This invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. If you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever. But in spite of all of that he loves you!                         

                            George Carlin

Life is not measured by the number of breath we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

                            George Carlin

We, like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants, can see more and farther not because we are keener and taller, but because of the greatness by which we are carried and exalted.

                            Bernard of Charters

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

                            Chapman Cohen

There is a crack, a crack in everything, and that's how the light gets in.

                            Leonard Cohen

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

                            Clarence Darrow

Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God. It is sanctioned in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

                            Jefferson Davis

All animals, plants and bacteria, however different they may appear to be from one another, are astonishingly uniform when we get down to molecular basics. This is most dramatically seen in the genetic code itself which is universal. This fact confirms that all living organisms are descended from a single common ancestor.

                            Richard Dawkins

The presentation down through the ages of Jesus as a "white" Anglo-European has served to characterize the Caucasians as being superior to all other races, especially whose with black skin.

                            Phil Donahue

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

                            Frederick Douglass

There are no lengths to which some people will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

                            Thomas A. Edison

Religion is all bunk.

                            Thomas A. Edison

Do you think that religion will help promote peace? It has not done so up to now. I cannot imagine a god who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are molded after our own - a god who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither do I believe that the individual survives the death of his body. I am convinced that some activities by (Roman) Catholic organizations are dangerous. I mention here the fight against birth control as a time when overpopulation has become a serious threat to health and to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.

                            Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

                            Albert Einstein

With primitive man it is, above all, fear that evokes religious notions -- fear of hunger, wild beasts, sickness, death, etc. Since at this stage of existence understanding of causal connections is usually poorly developed, the human mind creates illusory beings more of less analogous to itself on whose wills and actions these fearful happenings depend. Thus one tries to secure the fervor to these beings by offering sacrifices which propitiate them of make them well-disposed toward a mortal. This was stabilized by the formation of a special priestly cast, which sets itself up as a mediator between the people and the being(s) they fear.

                            Albert Einstein

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little philosophers, politicians, and divines.

                            Ralph W. Emerson

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

                            Epicurus

Amino acids, the simple building blocks of life, are easily formed in the billions of galactic kitchens whose starry caldrons brim with primordial soups. In contrast, some fundamentalists ebrace a doctrine of "just one earth, just for man." Really? And should pigeons believe that skyscrapers were assembled just for them?

                            George Erickson

God found out about the Trinity in 325 A.D.

                            Rocco A. Errico

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

                            Rev. Jerry Falwell

I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. Oh, what a happy day that will be.

                             Rev, Jerry Falwell

Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, "Some gardener must tend this plot." The other disagrees, "There is no gardener." So, they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener.... So they set up a barbed wire fence. They electrify it. They patrol it with bloodhounds.... But no shrieks even suggest that some intruder has received a shock. No movements of the wire ever betray an invisible climber. The bloodhounds never give cry. Yet still the Believer is not convinced. "But there is a gardener, invisible, intangible, insensible to electric shocks, a gardener who has no scent and makes no sound, a gardener who comes secretly to look after the garden which he loves." At last the Skeptic despairs, "But what remains of your original assertion? Just how does what you call an invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener or even no gardener at all?"

                             Antony Flew

It is an unusual book which begins with two contradictory stories and with a narrative whose time and place are false. Yet for centuries that book, the Bible, has been read as the ultimate source of truth.

                             Robin Lane Fox

Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty.

                             Benjamin Franklin

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is only too palpable.

                             Sigmund Freud

The common fantasy satisfactions have an essential advantage over individual daydreams: by virtue of their universality, the fantasies are perceived by the conscious mind as if they were real. An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality. The oldest of these fantasy satisfactions is religion.

                             Erich Fromm

Because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion that the Sun is the center and immovable, ...I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors and heresies...contrary to the said Holy Church.

                             Galileo Galilei

I am willing to die for my cause, but there is no cause for which I would kill.

                             Mohandas K. Gandhi

There can be no freedom without the protected right to dissent.

                             Anne Nicol Gaylor

Christianity began not as a new religion but as a sect within Judaism. Its members were all Jews who had no intention of breaking away from their faith.

                             Shmuel Golding

What's the difference between a dead Israeli Child and a dead Palestinian child? If you correctly answered "none," you've grasped the essence of all the important differences in the Middle East.

                             Dr. Tim Gorski

Legitimate truth is the product of evidence, not of our willingness to believe.

                             Dr. Tim Gorsky

If intelligent life exists, or ever existed, elsewhere in the universe, it could not resemble us in appearance, for we have been shaped by a contingent series of evolutionary events so rich in their number, and so unrepeatable in their intricacy, that the same sequence could never occur again in the same way - - not even on this planet.

                             Stephen J. Gould

Humans are not predictable consequences of nature's laws, but fortuitous results of history's contingency on this particular planet.

                             Stephen J. Gould

Christians don't have a monopoly on goodness, nor should they claim to have one. I certainly have known many people who were not believers and yet have put me to shame by their thoughtfulness and integrity.

                              Billy Graham

Leave the matter of religion to the family alter, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated.

                              Ulysses S. Grant

The four stages of life:

    1 You believe in Santa Clause.

    2 You don't believe in Santa Clause.

    3 You are Santa Clause

    4 You look like Santa Clause.

                              Red Green

There is no soul; cognizance ends at death.

                              Horacio Hanson

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does he would have to act through the laws of physics.

                              Stephen Hawking

In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who considered her a pagan. The leader of the monks, Cyril, was canonized a saint.

                              James A. Haught

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

                              Hebrews 11:1

The Germans who poisoned the wells and springs of northern France and Belgium and fed little children poisoned candy were angels compared to the textbook writers and publishers who are poisoning the books used in our schools.... Next to the fall of Adam and Eve, the teaching of Evolution in this nation's public schools is the greatest curse that ever fell upon this earth.

Everyone, regardless of personal beliefs, is a skeptic. They question the validity of all belief systems but their own. For that reason there is no such thing as the Christian religion. In reality, Christianity consists of a great variety of separate denominations each claiming to be the one true faith all others being false.

                              Randel M. Helms

I know that men are won over less by the written than by the spoken word, that every great movement on this earth owes its growth more to great orators than to great writers.

                              Adolf Hitler

Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews... The work that Christ started but could not finish, I will conclude.

                              Adolf Hitler

Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of Almighty God: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

                              Adolf Hitler

Follow your reason as far as it will take you. Do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

                              Robert G. Ingersoll

The only slavery is ignorance.

                              Robert G. Ingersoll

The Catholic Church says: “Don’t think; pay your fare; this is a through ticket, and we will look out for your baggage.” The Protestant Church says; “Read the Bible for yourselves; think for yourselves; but if you do not come to a right conclusion you will be eternally damned.” Any sensible man will say, “Then I won’t read it - I’ll believe it without reading it.” And that is the only way you can be sure you will believe it; don’t read it.

                              Robert G. Ingersoll

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition on common sense. Whoever investigates a religion as he would any department of science, is called a blasphemer. Whoever contradicts a priest (or preacher), whoever has the impudence to use his (or her) own reason, whoever is brave enough to express their honest thoughts, is a blasphemer in the eyes of the professional religionist.

                              Robert G. Ingersoll 

There is no prophecy in the OT foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ. There is not one word in the OT referring to him in any way--not one word. The only way to prove this is to take your Bible, and wherever you find these words; "That it might be fulfilled" and "which was spoken" turn to the OT and find what was written, and you will see that it had not the slightest possible reference to the thing recounted in the NT--not the slightest.
                              Robert G. Ingersoll

The government of God was tried in the U.S. when slavery was regarded as a divine institution. The pulpit of that day defended the buying and selling of women and babies. The mouths of the slave-traders were filled with passages of Scripture, defending and upholding traffic in human flesh.

                              Robert G. Ingersoll

We have repudiated Greek and Roman mythologies with disdain. Why, then, admit with respect the mythology of the Jews? Ought the miracles of Jehovah to impress us more than those of Jupiter? . . . I have much more respect for the Greek Jupiter than for the God of Moses; for if he gives some examples not of the purest morality, at least he does not flood his altar with streams of human blood.

                              Louis Jacolliot

In a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association dated January 1, 1802: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state".

                              Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature.

                              Thomas Jefferson

All men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

                              Thomas Jefferson

Life does not derive its whole vigor from the past. With the birth of each child, nature lays aside all traditions, except those man imposes. 

                              Helen Keller

The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion.

                             Abraham Lincoln

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is better that an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep. . . But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of God will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience.

                              C. S. Louis

I regard religion as a disease born of fear and ignorance and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

                              Lucretius

Nature is not unique to the visible world; we must have faith that in other regions of space there exists other earths inhabited by other people and animals.

                              Lucretius

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the devil. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

                              Martin Luther

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

                              Martin Luther

I myself saw and touched at Dessay a child which had no human parents but had proceeded directly from the devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

                              Martin Luther

What shall we do with ... the Jews? ...set fire to their synagogues and schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

                              Martin Luther

Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil's appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom ... Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism ... She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets.                            

                              Martin Luther

A just government has no need for clergy or church.

                              James Madison

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

                              James Madison

It rains on the just and the unjust alike.

                              Matthew 5:45

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless circumstances. It is the opium of the people.

                              Karl Marx

The Bible has been shown to be nothing more than an out-and-out forgery plagiarized for the most part from previously existing Pagan religions.

                              Dennis McKinsey 

The invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.

                              Delos B. McKown

The Bible is a mine rich in the ore of cognitive dissonance*.

                              Delos B. McKown

The potential is tremendous for the advancement of knowledge and understanding through modern electronic media techniques. However, the reverse of this potential, the retreat of knowledge and the diminution of understanding, is chilling. As the producers increasingly compete for the attention of the public, the product must be reduced to the lowest common denominator.

                             Marshal McLuhan

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever does.

                              Margaret Mead

Creationism: the theory that Rome WAS built in  day.

                              Margaret Mead

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

                              H. L. Mencken 

The universe is composed primarily of two elements - hydrogen and stupidity.

                              H. L. Mencken

The more you cultivate people, the more you uncover clods.

                              H. L. Mencken

The mind is its own place and in itself can create a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

                              John Milton

The biblical concepts of sin and salvation are an integral part of Christian doctrine. Christianity first creates a problem (sin) and then offers a "solution" (salvation). This is not unlike the protection racket; you either buy "protection"--or else.

                               Don Morgan

Every man has the right to his own opinion but not to his own facts.

                               Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Religion has been the root cause of more suffering, bloodshed, heart-ache, hatred, and death than any other idea ever conceived by the human race.

                               Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the rabble quiet.

                               Napoleon Bonaparte

God is dead, and you have killed him.

                               Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith is not wanting to know the truth.

                               Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

                               Friedrich Nietzsche

Any attack on intellectual liberty, and on the concept of objective truth, threatens in the long run every department of thought.

                               George Orwell

Nowhere in the world, and at no time in history, has the average man actually "made up his own mind." Priest, theologians, Kings, conquerors, dictators, scientists, and of course, politicians have made it up for him.

                               Harry Overstreet

Paul's writing is no better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told.

                             Thomas Paine

Paul is like the man who comes into court today to swear that everything he swore to yesterday was a lie.

                             Thomas Paine

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when the do it from religious conviction.

                             Blaise Pascal

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

                             Pope Pius XII

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

                             Pogo

They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved.

                             Chief Pontiac

Man is the measure of all things.

                             Protagoras

Misunderstanding is the forte of humanity.

                             Monty Python

An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

                             Ayn Rand

The moral and ethical teachings contained in the New Testament Gospels include nothing that is not also contained in the Old Testament, and/or in the teachings of Gautama Buddha.

                             J. M. Robertson

Far from having been superseded by religion, superstition continues to permeate modern religion just as always. Religion evolved from, and to some extent still relays on, an animistic view of nature.

                             J. M. Robertson

The Constitution is a marvelous document for self government by Christian people. But non-Christian people and atheists can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society.

                             Pat Robertson

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

                             Theodore Roosevelt

Religion is based mainly upon fear and fear is the parent of cruelty. Therefore, it is no wonder that religion and cruelty have always gone hand in hand.

                             Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble and contemptible about a person who cannot face life without the help of comfortable myths and cherished illusions.

                             Bertrand Russell

I do not believe that religion has been a force for good.... I regard it as belonging to the infancy of reason.

                             Bertrand Russell

People fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth--more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is revolutionary and subversive, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, comfortable habits, time-honored traditions; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought sees humanity, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world and the chief glory of humankind.

                             Bertrand Russell

We may define faith as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of faith. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

                             Bertrand Russell

We cannot really decide whether religion does good without investigating the question whether religion is true.

                             Bertrand Russell

I wish to propose for the reader's favorable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

                             Bertrand Russell

Many people applaud the virtue of "common sense," but it has been my experience and observation that most of what is common is not sensible and the little that is sensible is not common. 

                             R. Lloyd Ryan

All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

                              Arthur Schopenhauer

There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of God upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence.... He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in a historical garb.

                             Albert Schweitzer

The most important quality in a person concerned with religion is absolute devotion to the truth.

                             Albert Schweitzer  

Any religion makes sense if you look at it only from the inside.                            

                             George C. Scott

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

                             Seneca the Younger

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

                             George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

                             George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who don’t have it.

                             George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means.

                             George Bernard Shaw

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

                              Herb Silverman

Why has Christianity refused, whenever possible, to allow its beliefs to compete in the free marketplace of ideas? The answer is obvious--and revealing. Christianity is peddling an inferior product, one that cannot withstand critical investigation. Unable to compete favorably with other theories, it has sought to gain a monopoly through a state franchise, which means: through the use of force.

                             George H. Smith

Religion is a mind-numbing drug; reality is the cure.

                             Mark Smith

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

                             Socrates

The Holy Bible has left a trail of pain, horror, blood, and death that is undeniable.

                             John Shelby Spong

One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

                             Joseph Stalin

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.

                             Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

                             Rev. Jimmy Swaggart

Bibliolatry: A form of idolatry, resulting from the acceptance of the Bible as an error free rendition of divine inspiration. So much authority is assigned to the Bible that it, in effect, becomes the object of worship.

                             Howard M. Teeple

We have a term to describe the person who, in the face of evidence that obviously conflicts with his personal beliefs, rationalizes in such a way as to remove the conflict. The term is cognitive dissonance*.

                             Farrell Till

I have asked (Bible) inerrantists what they would think if I should take the position that the Bible is errant in everything it says. They admit that anyone who would do this would not be an objective person, yet they seem to think that they are being perfectly objective in their position that the Bible is inerrant in everything it says.

                             Farrell Till

It is always best to check the weather report before praying for rain.

                             Mark Twain

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.                     

                             Mark Twain

Skeptic does not mean he who doubts, but he who investigates or researches, as opposed to he who asserts and thinks that he has found.

                             Miguel de Unamuno

There are demon-haunted worlds, regions of utter darkness.

                             Upanishad, 600 BCE

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

                             Voltaire

Whoever will take the trouble to read attentively, will find in all those passages where the Old Testament is cited, only an obvious abuse of words, and the seal of falsehood on almost every page.

                             Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.      

                             Voltaire

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed in frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each others folly. That is the first law of nature.

                              Voltaire

Most believers would kill truth if truth threatened their religion.

                             L. K. Washburn

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil, it takes religion.

                             Steven Weinberg

Arguments are to be avoided. They are always vulgar and often convincing.

                             Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a peculiar institution. It takes two to make it work, and sometimes three.

                             Oscar Wilde

Biblical narratives, including those about Jesus, are based on a supernatural world view that informed people find repugnant.

                             Anon

Scholarly study and research shows that the religious beliefs held by most people are totally unfounded and are rooted in myths, legends, and half truths the origins of which are lost in antiquity.

                             Anon

Faith is to the Christian what sand is to the ostrich.

                             Anon

Theists think all gods but theirs are false. Atheists simply don’t make an exception for the last one.

                             Anon

A flea hath smaller fleas that on him prey; and these have smaller fleas to bite 'um, and so proceed ad infinitum.

                             Anon

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

                             Anon

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