“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.” …
Publications
Elizabeth Olsen
“When I was 13, I told my parents I didn’t believe in God anymore. I wanted to be an atheist because I believed that religion should be about community and …
Octave Mirbeau
“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. … Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and …
Christopher Eccleston
“I’m an atheist. My mother is very religious, a churchgoer. She would often encourage me to go to church as well, but never forced it upon me, which I thought …
Sir Francis Galton
“Your book drove away the constraint of my old superstition, as if it had been a nightmare.” …
Natalie Angier
“Sure, I’m a soapbox atheist. But [my daughter] doesn’t have to take my word for anything. All she has to do is look around her, every day, to find the …
Bill T. Jones
“I am a humanist, as all Christians are supposed to be. For me, the bottom line is commonality. It is the only thing I accept. I don’t even know if …
Matt Groening
“Technically, I’m an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell — especially after watching the fall TV schedule.” …
Galileo Galilei
“I have been … suspected of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the Sun is the center of the universe and immovable, and that the earth is …
