When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.
I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.
Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.
The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can be no question of arguing that this or that external origin is either probable or improbable. We do not have, and we necessarily could not have, experience of other Universes to tell us that Universes, or Universes with these particular features, are the work of Gods, or of Gods of this or that particular sort.
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.