Joseph Lewis Quotes
1889–1968 United States
Joseph Lewis (11 June 1889 – 1968) was an American freethinker, and atheist who was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.
With this recognition of the finality of death, no one should willingly withhold acts that would bring benefits, joy or happiness to others.
Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!
Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.
As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.
When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.
On too many occasions, especially in matters concerning purported conversations and messages from gods, mystery has been employed by charlatans to hoodwink the people.
Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
[Atheism] believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
The Bible is not a divine revelation from God. It is not inspired; on the contrary, it is a wicked book .... It has been responsible for more suffering and torture than any other volume ever printed……”