“[T]he vast mass of existing gods or divine persons, when we come to analyze them, do actually turn out to be dead and deified human beings. … I believe that …
Publications
W.E.B. Du Bois
“My ‘morals’ were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a ‘believer’ in …
S.E. Cupp
“I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?” …
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
LUKE FORD: “Tell me about you and God.” REBECCA GOLDSTEIN: “I lived Orthodox for a long time. … I was torn like a character in a Russian novel. It lasted through …
Arthur Schopenhauer
“For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it’s dark. A certain amount of general ignorance is the condition of all religions, the element in which …
Josephine K. Henry
“Is not the Church today a masculine hierarchy, with a female constituency, which holds woman in Bible lands in silence and in subjection? No institution in modern civilization is so …
Edna St. Vincent Millay (Quote)
“There is no God.But it does not matter.Man is enough.” “A job, something at which you must work for a few hours every day; an assurance that you will have …
James Russell Lowell
“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.” …
August Bebel
“We aim in the domain of politics at Republicanism, in the domain of economics at Socialism, and in the domain of what is today called religion at Atheism.” …