Occupation: Writer Birth: July 30, 1889 Death: July 31, 1951
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up..
Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character….
Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the ch….
"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own busi….
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church me….
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what t….
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools..
A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of….
Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmos….
Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the lea….
A good title is a work of a genius!.
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and mo….
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence ….
As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his ….
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opi….
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the c….
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Athei….
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movement….
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature..
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind..