“The political climate in our house was generally and loosely left: it was unthinkable that a Jew, our sort of Jew, the artisan Jewish worker, self-employed, poor, Yiddish-speaking, unassimilated, non-religious, …
Publications
John E. Remsburg
“The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it.” …
Zora Neale Hurston
“Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. …
Giuliano Ferrara
“I’m not a converted Catholic. I’m still a nonbeliever, even though my idea of reason is the idea of a reason which is open to mystery.” …
Nigella Lawson
“I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did …
Carl Sandburg
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to Hell after all would be too damned hard.” …
Nick Clegg
BBC: Do you believe in God? CLEGG: No. … I am not an active believer. …
Felix Manz (Died)
On this date in 1527, Swiss heretic Felix Manz, born c. 1498, was drowned under sentence of the Zurich city council. As an Anabaptist, Manz was killed for opposing infant baptism …
Iris DeMent
“I started reflecting on my beliefs and seeing which ones held up next to my own experience. And when I was able to look at a belief and realize it …
