“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 …
Publications
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 …
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 …
Jeremy Bentham
“No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.” “[I]n no instance has a system …
Susan B. Anthony
“I could not dash her faith with my doubts, nor could I pretend a faith I had not; so I was silent in the dread presence of death.” …
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 …
Teller
“It’s fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.” …
Simon Pegg
“As an atheist, I’d skip the prayer and go straight to the colonel, who is arguably the god of affordable, bucket housed fried chicken bits.” …
