“I said in an interview not long ago that I didn’t believe in God, and people called my mother saying, ‘How do you feel about Beth being an atheist?’ ” …
Publications
Nicolaus Copernicus
“Perhaps there will be babblers who claim to be judges of astronomy although completely ignorant of the subject and, badly distorting some passage of Scripture to their purpose, will dare …
André Breton
“Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!” …
Svante August Arrhenius
Matt Dillon
“I’m not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.” …
Jared Huffman
“Members of Congress are asked all the time about their religion, and you can get away with ducking the question. You can hide behind ambiguous labels like ‘non-denominational,’ but something …
Giordano Bruno (Executed)
“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.” …
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 …