Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.