“Man created a God, a Heaven and a Hell.” …
Publications
Stanley Donen
“Because of my mother I never became religious. I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in God. I never did.” …
Mattie Parry Krekel
Nella Larsen
“With the obscuring curtain of religion rent, she was able to look about her and see with shocked eyes this thing she had done to herself. She couldn’t, she thought …
Christopher Hitchens
“Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life — except religion. … Atheism strikes me as morally superior, as well as intellectually superior, to religion. …
Henry Clay
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” …
Jon Krakauer
“All religious belief is a function of non-rational faith, and faith by its very definition tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism.” …
Henry “Hank” Zumach
“I gradually came to realize that many of the things I was taught during five years attending Catholic schools did not make any logical sense, and were, in fact, contrary …
Leo Rosten
“The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.” …