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  • Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

    James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins
  • For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.

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  • But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.235
  • I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

    Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan
  • Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

    Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.
  • There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication.

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  • I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

    Death   Mother   Atheist  
    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.383, Penguin
  • There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

    Atheist   Fear   Dark  
  • Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

    Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books
  • 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 (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
  • To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

    "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.
  • I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

    "Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1". Book by John F. Nash (p. 11), February 14, 2008.
  • Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

    Bible   God   Religious  
    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229
  • We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

    "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
  • Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

  • Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

  • The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

  • Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

  • There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

    "The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.
  • This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

    John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”
  • For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  • If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam
  • The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
  • As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

    "Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli". The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 04, 1796.
  • Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

    Atheist   Believe   Men  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.402, Courier Corporation
  • Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

  • Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  • Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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