Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Help yourself, then God will also help you!
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.
Anything more than the truth would be too much.
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.