Alfred Lord Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892)
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria’s reign
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
From: The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854)
Paula Kirby, a former Christian, is a writer, consultant and project manager,
specializing in freethinking and secular organizations. She lives in Scotland.
Religion claims to set its followers free, while all the time holding them in thrall and insisting they kiss the hand of their jailer. There can be no true freedom so long as religion still keeps the human mind in shackles.
Saul David Alinsky, Ph.B. (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972)
American Community Organizer, and Writer
In the world as it is, the stream of events surges endlessly onward with death as the only terminus. One never reaches the horizon; it is always just beyond, ever beckoning onward; it is the pursuit of life itself. This is the world as it is.
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A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism.
Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892)
Atheist Feminist, Individualist Feminist, and Abolitionist.
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
Adolph Hitler, Politician, Soldier, Artist, Writer
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
Steven Weinberg, Ph.D., Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
By Madison S. Hughes (09.24.2008)
After twenty-three years of military service in the U.S. Army, I realized that I just got tired of being around so many closed-minded, fascist, obnoxious, xenophobic, misogynistic, overconfident, arrogant, anti-intellectual, bigoted, Conservative, self-righteous, jingoistic, militaristic, redneck Republicans that thump the bible and drape themselves in the flag. I could go on, but life is too short.
David Hume, Philosopher, Historian, Economist, and Essayist
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Ph.D., German Philosopher, Atheist
Consider, first, the absurdity of the desire for material goods. Fools believe that if they can only achieve wealth, their wills can be completely gratified; a man of means is supposed to be a man with means for the fulfilment of every desire… [A] life devoted to the acquisition of wealth is useless unless we know how to turn it into joy; and this is an art that requires culture and wisdom… Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man ‘is’ contributes more to his happiness than what he ‘has…’ Not wealth but wisdom is the Way… [O]ur happiness depends on what we have in our heads rather than on what we have in our pockets.
Always Question Authority 