There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. ….

The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in prin….

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live..

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves..

In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled w….

There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the ….

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one..

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which ….

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should….

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEIS….

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me..

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded..

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look..

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world..

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; ….

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians an….

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its….

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination..

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon ….

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason..

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously….