Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason
In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but by the lack of it.
John Adams
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
Abraham Lincoln
It was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no church, and was suspected of being a Deist. He was an avowed and open infidel, and sometimes bordered on atheism. He went further against Christian beliefs and doctrines and principles than any man…
Thomas Jefferson
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot.... they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose. Christianity neither…
George Washington
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most…