B. F. Skinner Quotes

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

I don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to practice faith or not, and those who believe are free and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States?

Is it the duty of a deist to support that which he believes to be a cheat and imposition? Is it the duty of the Jew to support the religion of Jesus Christ, when he really believes that he was an imposter? Must the papist be forced to pay men for preaching down the supremacy of the pope, whom they are sure is the head of the church? Government has no more to do with the religious opinions of men than it has with the principles of mathematics

We persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion—except for the sect that can win political power.

I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn't want any part of it. That turned me off it.

This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.

I'm not really into religion.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.