“At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism.” …
Publications
Anthony Burgess
“I was brought up a Catholic, became an agnostic, flirted with Islam and now hold a position which may be termed Manichee. I believe the wrong God is temporarily ruling …
Joan Konner
“I see myself as a journalist if anything. I don’t call myself an agnostic but I do recognize that I will never know.” …
George Augustus Moore
“The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.” …
Grant Allen
“[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 …
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 …
George Washington
“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most …
