“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 …
Publications
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.” …
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 …
John Ballance
“A man is not good for much unless there be something of the heretic in him; unless he has a mind so independent, honest, and courageous as to think for …
Richard Dawkins
“My respect for the Abrahamic religions went up in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th. The last vestige of respect for the taboo disappeared as I watched the …
A.E. Housman
THE LAWS OF GOD, THE LAWS OF MAN The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can. Not I. Let God and man decree …
Robert Frost
I turned to speak to God,About the world’s despair;But to make bad matters worse,I found God wasn’t there.God turned to speak to me(Don’t anybody laugh)God found I wasn’t there—At least …
Edward Sorel
Sorel’s “The Last Flossing” (1992) …
