MOMENT: Have you always been an atheist?REINER: I became an atheist after Hitler came. I said, what is this? If there was a God, would he not be hearing 18 …
Publications
John de Lancie
“My biggest concern is that with certain religious training you seem to lose any sort of critical thinking in the process. You seem to lose your ability to ask questions.” …
B.F. Skinner
“My Grandmother Skinner made sure that I understood the concept of hell by showing me the glowing bed of coals in the parlor stove. In a traveling magician’s show I …
Henrik Ibsen
“The state has its root in Time: it will have its culmination in Time. Greater things than it will fall; all religion will fall. Neither the conceptions of morality nor …
Philip Roth
“I’m exactly the opposite of religious, I’m anti-religious. I find religious people hideous. I hate the religious lies. It’s all a big lie. … I have such a huge dislike. …
Bruce Willis
“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or …
Henry Morgentaler
“In Canada, you have fewer religious fanatics, there is much less violence in Canada and it’s a much more tolerant society.” …
Sir Richard F. Burton
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anyone but himself.” …
Jean Astruc
On this date in 1684, Jean Astruc was born in France, the son of a Protestant minister who converted to Catholicism. Astruc, who became a physician, was one of the …
