"It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science." [Darwin]


"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." [Voltaire]


"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose...