“Human liberation is more important than the maintenance of any religious symbol, sign, canon or icon. … I could see nothing in history pointing toward the presence of something in …
Publications
John Ballance
“A man is not good for much unless there be something of the heretic in him; unless he has a mind so independent, honest, and courageous as to think for …
Keira Knightley
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 …
Richard Dawkins
“My respect for the Abrahamic religions went up in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th. The last vestige of respect for the taboo disappeared as I watched the …
A.E. Housman
THE LAWS OF GOD, THE LAWS OF MAN The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can. Not I. Let God and man decree …
Edward Sorel
Sorel’s “The Last Flossing” (1992) …
Robert Frost
I turned to speak to God,About the world’s despair;But to make bad matters worse,I found God wasn’t there.God turned to speak to me(Don’t anybody laugh)God found I wasn’t there—At least …
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 …
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 …
