If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison….

Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only th….

The absence of theistic belief....

Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolu….

Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th….

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism..

No pope ever condemned slavery..

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause..

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time….

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defend….

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason..

I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve I wrote 'bank….

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1….

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress..

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power..

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a par….

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances..

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.