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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.” …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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