George Washington

"The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion."

John Adams

"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?"

"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation." (Treaty of Tripoli (1797) drafted by Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul, and signed by John Adams)

James Madison

"A just government has no need for the clergy or the church. The fruits of Christianity are pride, and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; and in both clergy and laity, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

"In no instance have ... the churches been guardians of the liberties of people."

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

Charles Bukowski, American Writer

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the Church, State, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." Life magazine, December 1988, from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief)

Thomas Paine, American Politician

"The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense."

"There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood."

"No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith."

"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion."

"Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!"

Abraham Lincoln

"Here are twenty three ministers, of different denominations, and all of them are against me but three; and here are a great many prominent members of the Churches, a very large majority of whom are against me. Mr. Bateman, I am not a Christian - God knows I would be one - but I have carefully read the Bible, and I do not understand this book [ . and he drew from his bosom a pocket New Testament] .these men well know . that I am for freedom in the territories, freedom everywhere as far as the Constitution and the laws will permit, and that my opponents are for slavery. They know this, and yet, with this book in their hands, in the light of which human bondage can not live a moment, they are going to vote against me. I do not understand it at all." (quoted by Newton Bateman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois, "The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents, From Washington to F.D.R" written by Franklin

Stiner.)

"The bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion."

"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."

Sidney Hook, American Philosopher

".it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability." (The Partisan Review, March 1950)

Benjamin Franklin, American Scientist

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! `tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

Albert Einstein

"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil." (Personal memoir of William Miller, editor, Life, May 2, 1955)

"In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests.

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty."

"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept, which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of

Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order and harmony of the universe, which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem, the most important of all human problems."

Matthew Arnold, British Poet, Oxford University
"All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science."

Blaise Pascal, Mathematician

"If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have nothing in it mysterious or supernatural. If we violate the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous. " (from "Pensees")

Charles Cazeau, US Professor of Geology

"The order of creation in the Bible is woefully incorrect and violates even the most simple and obvious rules of natural science."

Thomas Jefferson

"We discover [in the gospels] a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication."

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

"I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature."

"The hocus-pocus fantasy of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs."

"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites."

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

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