“I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”
Isaac Asimov1920 – 1992
“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name he'd never stop throwing up. (From the film 'Hannah And Her Sisters')”
“Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins.”
“Democratic institutions are, by definition, secular institutions. There is simply no other sustainable way.”
“I've always considered the existence of religion as one of the most fundamental proofs of the non-existence of God. I simply cannot conceive of the notion of a universal creator so extraordinarily vacuous and vain that he would require his creations to worship him throughout their – apparently otherwise meaningless – lives.”
Unknown author