“I’ve never been religious. But most people seem religious, and it gets more and more bothersome as religious language invades common, spoken English. … Politicians have always tried to out-Christian …
Publications
Marilla Ricker
“A steeple is no more to be excluded from taxation than a smoke stack.” …
Weiss v. District Board
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state as religion. Let it once enter our civil …
Kate Greenaway
“Did you ever believe at all in religion, I mean did you ever believe it as the Bible gives it? I never did — it’s so queer.” …
Moncure Daniel Conway
“Sunday was a day of just so much external restraint as public opinion absolutely demanded. I learned at last, as I came to be about seventeen, that my father was …
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
“I still wouldn’t define myself as an atheist — it’s too absolute. But I don’t have any faith. I think faith is an absurd thing but I’m OK with that. …
Madame Roland
“Soon after she began to study the Christian dogma rationally, she revolted against the doctrines of infallibility and of the universal damnation of all those who never knew or who …
Alexander McQueen
“I’m an atheist and an anti-royalist, so why would I put anyone on a pedestal?” …
Patrick Duffy
“[Buddhism] deals with the fact, in essence, you know, come right out and say it, that there is no God, that the individual is God.” …