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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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