{"quotes":[{"text":"The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive support of the State. It has the ear of rulers and the control of education. Every generation is suborned in its favor. Those who dissent from it are losers, those who oppose it are ostracised; while in the past, for century after century, it has replied to criticism with imprisonment, and to scepticism with the dungeon and the stake. By such means it has induced a general tendency to allow its pretensions without inquiry and its beneficence without proof.","author":"Joseph Mazzini Wheeler","tags":["brainwashing","christianity","control","doubt","education","fear","inquiry","power","proof","religion","scepticism"],"id":17772,"author_id":"Joseph+Mazzini+Wheeler"},{"text":"A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.","author":"Ricky Gervais","tags":["atheism","christianity","comedy","humor","humour","rationality","religion","scepticism","skepticisim"],"id":44257,"author_id":"Ricky+Gervais"},{"text":"Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.","author":"Frank R. Stockton","tags":["scepticism","society"],"id":49883,"author_id":"Frank+R.+Stockton"},{"text":"How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?","author":"Jake Jesser","tags":["christianity","crucifixion","death","mythology","perspective","religion","scepticism","theology"],"id":63143,"author_id":"Jake+Jesser"},{"text":"Scepticism is the first step towards truth.","author":"Denis Diderot","tags":["scepticism","skepticism","truth"],"id":65899,"author_id":"Denis+Diderot"},{"text":"Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier.' (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - 'Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs.","author":"Franz Kafka","tags":["criticism","humor","scepticism"],"id":68197,"author_id":"Franz+Kafka"},{"text":"It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.","author":"Jim Jefferies","tags":["bible","comedy","scepticism","stand-up-comedy"],"id":73343,"author_id":"Jim+Jefferies"},{"text":"No ghosts need. ","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["ghosts","holmesian","realism","scepticism","sherlock-holmes","sherlockian"],"id":102666,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.","author":"David Hume","tags":["certainty","politics","scepticism"],"id":123138,"author_id":"David+Hume"},{"text":"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["atheism","dogma","doubt","experience","faith","kool-aid","religion","scepticism"],"id":147026,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}