“As nontheists, we begin with humans not God, nature not deity.” …
Publications
Alice Walker
“It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the …
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)
Aletta Jacobs
“As a freethinker, she belonged to no organized religious community and disliked religion of any kind.” …
John Williams
“Without being religious, which I’m not especially, there is a spiritual life, an artistic life, a realm that’s above the mundanities of everyday realities. Music can raise one’s thinking to …
Elizabeth Bishop
“[Darwin] is one of the people I like best in the world.” …
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 …
