“I do want to add a final word about the hereafter. I do not believe in it. I think that the religions which promise various after-life scenarios basically invented them …
Publications
Ben Winter
“Belief is an anomaly of the mind.” …
Margaret Atwood
“This is not an attack on Christianity, but the fact is Christians have long persecuted other sects and each other, as they are in Northern Ireland today. People were saying …
Pierre Bayle
“It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.” …
Stephen Symonds Foster
“During the 1844 New England Antislavery Convention, Foster held up a collar and manacles and declared, ‘Behold here a specimen of the religion of this land, the handiwork of the …
Voltairine de Cleyre
“The question of souls is old — we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, God is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.” …
José Saramago
“All religions, without exception, have done humanity more bad than good.” …
Shriram Lagoo
“I do not believe in God and I feel it is now time to retire God. Concept of God is a very beautiful product of poet’s imagination and was essential …
George Seldes
“And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. …
