“As nontheists, we begin with humans not God, nature not deity.” …
Publications
Amy Lowell
And every year when the fields are highWith oat grass, and red top, and timothy,I know that a creed is the shell of a lie. …
James Parton
“In the days when to be an Agnostic was to be almost an outcast, [Parton] had the heart to say of the Mysteries that he did not know.” …
Giulio Cesare Vanini (Died)
William Jackson Harper
“I was raised C.O.G.I.C., which is Church of God in Christ, a very conservative, very strict denomination of Christianity in the black community. I think all my neuroses come from …
John Ruskin
“It is neither Madonna-worship nor saint-worship, but the evangelical self-worship and hell-worship — gloating, with an imagination as unfounded as it is foul, over the torments of the damned, instead …
Philip Appleman
O Karma, Dharma, Pudding and Pie O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie, gimme a break before I die: grant me wisdom, will, & wit, purity, probity, pluck, & grit. Trustworthy, …
Elizabeth Bishop
“[Darwin] is one of the people I like best in the world.” …
Cecily Strong
“Dogs are the best: This is my religion.” …
