“True virtue is life under the direction of reason.” …
Publications
Billy Connolly
“I don’t like religion. I think religion is a con.” …
Marie Bashkirtseff
“The Church has lowered God, disfigured religion, or, rather, has created, instead of the worship we owe to God, a complicated religion, full of charlatanism, which must be destroyed.” …
Margaret K. Knight
“Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.” …
Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Almost all the great poets have conversations in their poetry about doubting God, and even go all the way to dismissing. It’s such a strong tradition that it’s almost amazing …
Jesse Welles
ROB SCHMITZ: Jesse, are you religious? WELLES: No. I’m pretty convinced that there are secrets. There are things that I can’t see, but I’m just as convinced that they’re right …
Rodney Dangerfield
“We’re apes — do apes go anyplace [when they die]?” …
George Eliot
“I have not returned to dogmatic Christianity — to the acceptance of any set of doctrines as a creed, and a superhuman revelation of the Unseen.” …
Nate Phelps
“I would argue that Westboro Baptist Church is just giving voice to the same destructive ideology at the foundation of even the most moderate iteration of that faith. How do …
