“I was plunged into religion. Completely suffocated by it. The sort of training that made it much easier for me to finally break away from the church.” …
Publications
Judy Blume
TERRY GROSS: What were your children being taught in Sunday school that you didn’t approve of?BLUME: “I didn’t like how much we are the chosen people, and we are different, …
Charles Darwin
“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who …
Abraham Lincoln
“Mr. Lincoln was never a member of any Church, nor did he believe in the divinity of Christ, or the inspiration of the Scriptures in the sense understood by evangelical …
George Meredith
“When I was quite a boy, I had a spasm of religion which lasted about six weeks, during which I made myself a nuisance in asking everybody whether they were …
François-Désiré Bancel
Momus
THE ONION A.V. CLUB: Is there a God?MOMUS: Uh, I’m an atheist. …
Sikivu Hutchinson
“The white fundamentalist Christian stranglehold on Southern and Midwestern legislatures has proven to be a national cancer that further exposes the dangerous lie of a God-based, biblical morality.” …
Thomas Alva Edison
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God …
