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If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition [of theism].

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.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious — unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

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?

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
-&- The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

In case you haven't noticed, most of the U.S. "Founding Fathers" were not exactly religious men. Some were (e.g. Roger Sherman); others were Deists (e.g. Jefferson and Franklin); still others were outright agnostics or atheists (Paine). U.S. evangelicals love to claim the Founding Fathers as their spiritual ancestors, however, their form of religion was unknown until the mid-nineteenth century, and in any event, most Founding Fathers (even the religious ones) would not have been amenable to such a rigidly dogmatic belief system. The discussion on Founding Father Quotes has a lot to say about this.

In addition, I have a special page on the U.S. Founding Fathers, which goes into greater depth, and provides some resources for you to check out.