Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaughwas an English political activist and an atheist and British republican. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 September 1833
denial dies hope life
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
atheism doe without-god
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
atheism liberty chiefs
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
should-have honor special
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.
mean sound affirmation
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.
christian taken biblical
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.
abuse freedom-of-speech denial
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
fate humanity atheism
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?
doubt atheism term
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour...
war ideas being-positive
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.