GodAnon

“It is a bizarre thought that in this presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House, we might have a black man in the White House, but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell. Julian Barnes , interview with Maclean’s magazine (2008) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“Let us begin, then, at once, with that merest of words, 'Infinity.' This, like 'God,' 'spirit,' and some other expressions of which the equivalents exist in all languages, is by no means the expression of an idea — but of an effort at one. It stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.” Edgar Allan Poe , "Eureka: A Prose Poem" (1848) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"Daily experience shows that the ordinary morality of religious men is not, at present, in spite of our intellectual anarchy, superior to that of the average of those who have quitted the churches. The chief practical tendency of religious conviction is ... to inspire an instinctive and insurmountable hatred against all who have emancipated themselves, without any useful emulation having arisen from the conflict." "The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte" (1853) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering