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“Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.”

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Ed Buckner

Ed Buckner, born on March 8, 1946, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. more

“The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.”

“We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.”

People Trying Ideas Use Government Force Religious Atheism Positive Atheism Urges Religious Freedom

Author:Ed Buckner

“I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.”

World Fighting Atheism Positive Atheism

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Thank God, I am still an atheist.”

Stills Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Thank God

Author:Luis Bunuel

“Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.”

Atheism Bears Essence Relation Positive Atheism Theology Fever Mislead Obsolete Scarlet True Religion Measles

Author:Luther Burbank

“As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.”

Helping Feelings Today Perfect Common Atheism Scientist Foundation Inspired Bounds Refuse Positive Atheism Common Sense Prophet

Author:Luther Burbank

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

“We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.”

Thinking Men World Believe Atheism Positive Atheism Wicked Virtuous Infancy Credulity Tainted Diabolical

Author:Edmund Burke

“An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.”

“On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!”

Earth Heaven Hell Atheism Mankind Positive Atheism Opening Mortals Gates Jealous Expanding Gloomy Discord Nineteen Inexorable Tithe Leviathan

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

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