“Mr. Cook had been an avowed atheist, who would, in the normal course of events, have steered well clear of organised religion.” …
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Daniel Handler
“The [‘Series of Unfortunate Events’] books have drawn the ire and praise of fundamentalist Christians, some of whom believe the books to be Christian allegories and some of whom believe …
Michel de Montaigne
“Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen.” …
Linus Pauling
“I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of …
Ed Schempp
“Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion. … Why don’t we celebrate living, instead of worrying about damnation and sin?” …
Peter De Vries
“What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial — or at …
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I think that as he grew older his hold upon anything like a creed weakened, though he remained of the Unitarian philosophy concerning Christ. He did not latterly go to …
Charles Watts
“The object of Christ was to teach his followers how to die, rather than to instruct them how to live.” …
John Steinbeck
“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches — nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants …
