Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.