Knightley: If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to …
Publications
Gloria Steinem
“It’s an incredible con job, when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations, with all their reward systems, don’t try to …
Matilda Joslyn Gage
“During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of the Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects. We …
Robbie Fulks
God Isn’t Real A world filled with wonder, a cold, fathomless sky A man’s life so meager, he can but wonder why He cries out to Heaven its truth to …
Béla Bartók
“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 …
Courtlandt Palmer
“He investigated for himself the questions, the problems, and the mysteries of life. Majorities were nothing to him. No error could be old enough, popular, plausible, or profitable enough, to …
Elton John
“From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. The reality is that organized religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really …
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 …
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 …
