Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety..

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose..

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty..

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility.".

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It ….

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural..

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it..

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced..

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude..

The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty.….

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble th….

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great..

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves ….

Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be….

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, ….

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all..

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life..

If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practi….

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live u….