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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it ? so, atheism is the default position. Although some children are not indoctrinated with a specific religion before the age of reason, there are many more who are.

It’s the age of reason for the anarchist.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . .

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

This then is the age of reason.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals – solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition – provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.