Although religious compositions made up a significant part of Schumann's works, he was a Pantheist like his countryman, Goethe.

About religion, Wright said, "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature… And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."

It is generally accepted that Adam Smith was at most a Deist, but considering how close he was to Hume, he may in fact have been an Agnostic.

Churches sometimes end up on the wining side after the battle has been won by Freethinkers!

In “An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge, and of the Progress of Reason,” Hutton developed his Deistic idea that there is no distinction between God and nature.

"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."

One of the leaders of the Paris Commune, Michel saw that the Commune severed all state connection to the Catholic Church, nationalized all church property, and secularized the schools.

Supernatural entities simply do not exist... [O]ur cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God... As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

Look, I'm an atheist. People say to me, do you believe in God? No, I don't believe in God... I have to have some proof of something.

Emerson rejected the idea of personal immortality and repudiated even the amorphous Unitarian God, believing instead in a vaguely Pantheistic Over-Soul.