[i]The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible[/i] - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1896 wrote:I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church...The less they believe, the better for their own happiness and development...
For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power, and the cannon law.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote:The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote:The church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns women.
Catherine Fahringer wrote:We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best mids at the stake.
Kay Nolte Smith wrote:The tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one cannot use to make life richer or easier or happier.
[i]The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages[/i] - Lydia Maria Child, 1855 wrote:It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
[i]A Few Reasons for Renouncing Christianity[/i] - Emma Martin
wrote:There is yet another consideration which is fatal to the Christian religion, and that is its persecuting spirit. It calls in the aid of Ecclesiastical and civil laws, and the iron hand of custom to condemn, and if possible to punish those who may express different opinions to its own...Perish the cause which has no more rational argument in its favour than that which the stake or prison can supply.
[i]The Godly Women of the Bible[/i] - Ella E. Gibson, 1870 wrote:Christianity is an insult to the wisdom of the nineteenth century. To place before its progress and development a leader, ruler, king, saviour, god, whose knowledge was less than a modern five year old school girl, is an outrage upon humanity. -
[i]Woman's Nation Liberal Union Resolutions[/i] - Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1890 wrote:...In order to help preserve the very life of the Republic, it is imperative that women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of the ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom --The Church.
Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote:The church... bids people live under faith outside of evidence, and in thus doing is guilty of immeasurable evils to mankind. A bark without compass, it steers upon a sea of night no star illuminating the darkness...
Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote:Possessing no proof of its (God's) existence, the church has ever fostered unintelligent belief. To doubt her "unverified" assertion has even been declared an unpardonable sin.
Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote:The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
Annie Besant from [i]the Gospel of Atheism[/i] wrote:God is always the equivalent of "I do not know".
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1883 wrote:[center]The World's Need
So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.[/center]
[i]Men, Women and Gods[/i] - Helen H. Gardener, 1885 wrote:There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity.
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Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, 1897 wrote:Heresy makes for progress
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner wrote:Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman from [i]His Religion and Hers[/i], 1923 wrote:Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of man to fry ants?
Marian Noel Sherman, M.D. , 1969 (Marian Sherman was a missionary Doctor to Atheist with a Mission.) wrote:A believer is not a thinker and a thinker is not a believer
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Margaret Knight, from [i]Morals Without Religion[/i], 1955 wrote:Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.
Siver Queen from [i]Humanity's Gain From Unbelief.[/i] wrote:The greatest contribution nonbelievers have made to the world has been the Constitution of the United States. Consider how very heretical to a religious world was the idea of a Constitution predicated on "We the People."
Ruth Hurmence Green, [i]Born again Skeptic[/i] wrote:There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
I have sorted through these quotes as MOST quotes and books mentioned in Atheist sites seem to be from men only. Women have been grappling with subjects near and dear to Atheist hearts for quite awhile. Their work needs wider circulation. I have only skimmed the surface of what some of the women of the world have contributed to Atheism.