“I’m not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.” …
Publications
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 …
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 …
Matt Groening
“Technically, I’m an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell — especially after watching the fall TV schedule.” …
