"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into accoun….

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion..

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible w….

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position..

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-lik….

Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism….

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or th….

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me..

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall..

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies..

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward..

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have be….

I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and pe….

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?.

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error..

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know..

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel..

Help yourself, then God will also help you!.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten..