“Comparatively few go to church, but they strike me as very earnest-minded, and not without a religious feeling even when they say, as I have heard a man say (thinking …
Publications
Eric Idle
The Lord God Made Them All All things dull and ugly All creatures short and squat All things rude and nasty The Lord God made the lot. Each little snake …
Ludwig Buchner
“If God is in us all and is the soul of the world, then he must directly partake of all our wickedness and imperfections. … In one man he does …
Daniel C. Dennett
“Politicians don’t think they even have to pay us lip service, and leaders who wouldn’t be caught dead making religious or ethnic slurs don’t hesitate to disparage the ‘godless’ among …
Corliss Lamont
“The greatest difference between the Humanist ethic and that of Christianity and the traditional religions is that it is entirely based on happiness in this one and only life and …
Ishmael Jaffree
“I brought the case because I wanted to encourage toleration among my children. I certainly did not want teachers who have control over my children for at least eight hours …
Jane Rule
“I’m a nonbeliever. I don’t believe in the existence of a God. I don’t believe in the Christian dogma. I find it horrifyingly silly. The intolerance that flows from organized …
Neil Kinnock
“When Neil Kinnock spoke about his atheism, he was monstered, as if this were evidence of his otherness. In fact, he was at the vanguard of a growing secularist trend.” …
John Ballance
“He took his politics from his liberal mother, who had a Quaker upbringing, rather than his conservative Church of Ireland father. Ultimately, Ballance rejected Christianity altogether, becoming a free thinker.” …
