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All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.
This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.
Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.
Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.
When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.