“As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.” NeedsEarthChristianOrderFallStarsReligiousTeachSkyAtheismLandStudentsScientistUniversityPositive AtheismFlatsProfessorsEngineersEmbarrassedReligious FaithGeorgiaSuperintendents Author:Jimmy Carter
“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."” ThinkingWorldStillsRealMightAtheismLandPositive AtheismBoardsReal WorldMillenniumKansasJurisdictionNever Never Land Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."” SaidStatesUseLawCertainChurchReligiousUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesSupportAtheismLandConstitutionBillsCongressPositive AtheismContraryFundArticlesEstablishmentBaptistsPrecedentAppropriationParcel Book:The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819 Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819
“Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.” MenBelieveHeartRealDreamEarthChristianSpiritualHeavenPoorMillionsAtheismLandPrideFoolKingsCourtPositive AtheismMiserableKneesSinnerBowsPalacesAristocracyPhantomsInsolenceInfatuatedServilityForeign Lands Book:The Martyrdom of Man Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.” PeopleIfsHumansMadeReasonFormCitiesCompassionAtheismLandDestructionPositive AtheismCrueltyInsultDisplayDevotedDeitiesSolemnOathPactHuman Cruelty Author:Ernest Renan
“Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” ChildrenMatterStatesSchoolOpportunityNationsChurchCommonSupportForeverGrowing UpGrowingAtheismLandInstitutionsDollarsPositive AtheismSufficientContributionResolveDogmaAltarsChurch And StatePaganSchool EducationPrivate SchoolChildren Growing UpGrowing ChildrenLand Of Opportunity Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.” MenBelieveMatterStatesLawBeliefForceI BelieveChurchAtheismLandExerciseConscienceConstitutionAbsolutesCongressI Believe InPositive AtheismFavorsSeparationEstablishmentStrictEnforcementChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateSectsDecreeAbsolute FreedomTribunals Author:Al Smith
“How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.” MatterAtheismLandAuthorityCongressPositive AtheismBigotryRegulationCommitteesUnjustCountenanceHurtfulAstonishmentPublic Lands Book:1769-1793 Source: 1769-1793
“If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.” IfsChildrenHomeGovernmentSchoolAmericaLeftChurchReligiousResponsibilityAtheismTeachingLandEndurePositive AtheismAgencyPublic SchoolReligious FreedomSchool SystemTeaching Religion Author:Sam Ervin
“Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat, They will tell you in voices so sweet. You will eat (You will eat!) By and by, (By and by!) In that glorious land in the sky. (Way up high!) Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (That's a lie!)” WayLyingNightDiesVoiceSkyAtheismLandSweetPrayingPositive AtheismGloriousEvery NightPreacherPieHay Author:Joe Hill
“It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern, enlightened Europe and it would be a crime to point out that Jewish settlers in Israel who believe they have a God given right to take the land are, frankly, mad. All the above assertions will, no doubt, offend someone or other.” BelieveWould BeGivenDoubtAtheismModernLandCrimeEuropeMadIslamIsraelDesertNo DoubtEnlightenedSuperstitionsAssertionSettlers Author:Ian O'Doherty