ABIGAIL POGREBIN: Does Nichols connect in any spiritual way to being Jewish or is it heritage that moved him? NICHOLS: Certainly heritage. Religion? I would have to say, no. In …
Publications
Thandiwe Newton
“I grew up on the coast of England in the ’70s. My dad is white from Cornwall and mum is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a …
Pat Tillman
“Hold your spiritual bromides. … Pat isn’t with God. He’s f-ing dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s f-ing dead.” …
Vashti Cromwell McCollum
“Between being praised and persecuted, condoned and condemned, I might understandably have become bewildered, particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of …
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
“That great and growing evils render it a paramount patriotic duty on the part of American citizens, who comprehend the priceless value of pure Secular government, to take active measures …
Robert Ellis
And the flames of hell, they seemed so high When I could barely see over the pew I was just a boy when they told me that lie But lord, …
J.B.S. Haldane
“My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment, I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with …
Will Durant
“Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a …
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
THE WORLD’S NEEDSo many gods, so many creeds—So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kindIs all this sad world needs. …
