Atheism Quotations | Page 8

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.