GodAnon

The words  “under God”  were added to the US pledge of allegiance in 1954, and “In God we trust” first printed on US currency in 1956 – so as to differentiate the US from the godless communists.  Promoting Unders tanding of Religious Suffering

1 Samuel 15 King James Version (KJV) 15 Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord. 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“If you believe in god and no god exists, then your belief is an even greater wonder. Then it is really something inconceivably great. Why should a being lie down there in the darkness crying to someone who does not exist? Why should that be? There is no one who hears when someone cries in the darkness.  But why does that cry exist?” Pär Lagerkvist in “Om du tror på gud och någon gud inte finns,” "Aftonland," 1953, translated by W. H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg in "Evening Land" 1975 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name. There have been no dirtier wars than religious wars, no bitterer hates than religious hates, no fiendish cruelty like religious cruelty, no baser baseness than religious baseness. It has destroyed the peace of families, turned the father against the son, the brother against the brother." Felix Adler, founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture (May 15, 1876) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “ Let us go and worship other gods ” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death . Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death , because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again. Deuteronomy - Chapter 13 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

The Atheist rejects every conception of God. If you ask him to give the name to the universe or any real part of it, he denies both the legitimacy and the usefulness of doing such a thing. To put it differently, he emphatically rejects the proposal to transfer the name God to nature or any element of it, and he rejects the belief in any sort of deity that is supposed to be distinct from, however much it may be intermingled with, nature. Atheism The Logic Of Disbelief by Joseph McCabe Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made. There are ... some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.” Emma Goldman, 1898 speech titled "Living My Life" in Detroit Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"Humanism is the creed of those who believe that, in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands — a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith." John Galsworthy, quoted in "Humanism as a Philosophy" by Corliss Lamont (1997) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“Every denial of education, every refusal of advantages to women, may be traced to this dogma [of original sin], which first began to spread its baleful influence with the rise of the power of the priesthood and the corruption of the early Church.” Lillie Devereux Blake , "Woman's Place To-Day: Four Lectures in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on 'Woman' by the Rev. Morgan Dix, Rector of Trinity Church, New York" (1883) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering