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“Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.”

Done Names Christ Atheism Teaching Responsible Positive Atheism Denial Submission Things Done Embodiment Inertia

Book:Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

“A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.”

Purpose Jesus Nations Atheism Positive Atheism Profession Establishment Identical Zeus Clauses Vishnu Establishment Clause

Author:Alfred Goodwin

“The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.”

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Author:Alfred Goodwin

“It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.”

Atheism Positive Atheism

Author:Alfred Goodwin

“Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.”

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Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.”

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Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“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 principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.”

“Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need of social obligation. If one is content to know the truth himself, he does not become a votary of Satyagraha. A Satyagrahi should not only know the truth but should insist upon it in social relations. So Satyagraha is activation of truthfulness.”

“The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.”

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Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.”

Humans Real Philosophy Purpose Individual Existence Atheism Economic Authority Pressure Positive Atheism Recognition Human Life Customs Atheistic Inhibitions Imposition Existentialist

Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.”

Way Individual Social Atheism Appreciation Positive Atheism Obligation Individual Freedom Social Obligation

Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.”

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Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.”

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Author:Al Gore

“If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.”

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Author:Marjoe Gortner

“It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.”

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Author:Marjoe Gortner

“As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain time in the evening. I let everything build up to that moment when they're all in ecstasy. The crowd builds up and you have to watch it that you don't stop it. You start off saying you've heard that tonight's going to be a great night; then you begin the whole pitch and keep it rolling.”

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Author:Marjoe Gortner

“I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.”

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Author:Marjoe Gortner

“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.”

Atheism Positive Atheism Cosmic Afterthought Fortuitous

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.”

Social Support Atheism Positive Atheism Data Compelling Darwinism Social Darwinism

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.”

Source: I Have Landed

“... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."”

Thinking World Stills Real Might Atheism Land Positive Atheism Boards Real World Millennium Kansas Jurisdiction Never Never Land

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.”

World Believe States Law United United States Knowing Atheism Citizens Civilization Universal Accounts Positive Atheism Secure Distinction Nationality Universal Laws

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.”

Ifs Evil Church Attention Trouble Atheism Amount Property Positive Atheism Accumulation

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.”

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Book:The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

Source: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

“There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.”

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Author:Horace Greeley

“Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.”

May Reason Use Light Christian Given Sin Animal Destiny Hell Fire Atheism Higher Dare Positive Atheism Homo Sapiens

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.”

Reading Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Reading The Bible

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.”

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Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.”

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Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”

“Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.”

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Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.”

Men Way Humans Seems Force Stars Prayer Human Beings Sea Atheism Positive Atheism Invisible Wilderness Melville

Author:Maxine Greene

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.”

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Book:The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure

Source: The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure

“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.”

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Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.”

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Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.”

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Book:Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

Source: Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

“The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.”

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Author:Georgia Harkness

“The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.”

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Author:William Rainey Harper

“If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.”

“That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.”

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Book:A child of the century

Source: A child of the century

“The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.”

Existence Gone Atheism Positive Atheism Proof Fallen Belonging Existence Of God Discredit Days Gone By

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.”

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Author:Thomas Helwys

“Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”

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Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.”

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Book:Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

Source: Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists