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
doubt atheism term
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour...
funeral atheism body
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.
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?
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.
atheism liberty chiefs
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
atheism doe without-god
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
men atheism age
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.
atheism form mere
A mere society form of Atheism.
country believe atheism
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.
atheism gains miserable
Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
long people atheism
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.
ideas atheism would-be
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.
atheist effort atheism
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.