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In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no need for religion.
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.
If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.
In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).