“To violinist Stefi Geyer, he once wrote about his religious belief, calling the trinity a ‘clumsy fable’ that ‘enslaves thought.’ … The existence of the universe did not require the …
Publications
David Suzuki
“As an atheist, Suzuki declares, he has no illusions about life and death, adding that the individual is insignificant in cosmic terms. Human beings must come to terms with the …
Harry Houdini
“I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word.” …
Robert Louis Heilbroner
What sort of religion will transform capitalism? A “statist” religion, says Heilbroner, that will elevate mankind’s “collective and communal destiny” and absolutely subordinate private interests to public requirements. …
Joel Barlow
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the …
Tig Notaro
“My biggest problem with people who talk about God and prayers is how confident they are about how it all works out until it doesn’t work out. This kind of …
Richard Proctor
“[H]e became a student at King’s College, where he came out either at or close to the head of the honours list in Theology, a subject for which he was …
Erich Fromm
“If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and …
William Smith
“In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the Earth — and a central plank of …
