L. Donovan Heinz

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top atheist quotes (total: 20)

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"You only get two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only get one."		8
If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt?		6
A common argument for why religion and science are compatible is that there are scientists who believe in religion and religious people who believe in science. It's like saying that Catholicism and pedophilia are compatible because there are a lot of Catholic priests who are pedophiles.		5
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.		5
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith ...we need believing people.		3
For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: 'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!		3
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.		3
I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.		3
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.		3
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.		3
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.		3
The civil government functions with complete success by the total separation of the Church from the State.		3
Odd, isn't it, that faith and delusion share the same definition?		3
Blindly following ancient customs and traditions doesn't mean that the dead are alive, but that the living are dead.		3
What I want to believe is whatever's true, so I go wherever the evidence takes me. There's no evidence of god, so I don't go there.		2
It's much easier to admire the Emperor's new clothes if everyone else is admiring them too.		2
Faith is doubt.		2
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.		0
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.		0
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.		0

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top atheist quotes (total: 20)