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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

— John Burroughs The Light of Day (1900)

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The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.

Accepting the Universe (1920)

We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.

Accepting the Universe (1920)

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Accepting the Universe (1920)

Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.

The Light of Day (1900)

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George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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