A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world. . . , the most dangerous adversaries of science.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.
If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?
. . . inventions and purely human institutions.
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.
All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.